ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,406, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Kwang Soo Bae (Yongin-si, South Korea), Min Jeong Oh (Gimpo-si, South Korea), Sang Hyun Choi (Seoul, South Korea) and Chaun Gi Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a base substrate; a thin-film transistor disposed on the base substrate; a via layer disposed on the thin-film transistor and having a via hole formed therein, the via hole penetrating the via layer in a thickness direction; a first electrode disposed on the via layer and having an electrode hole forme...