ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,533, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Display device having a repair portion" was invented by Youngjae Jeon (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Woogeun Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a display device in which a bright spot occurring due to a defective pixel circuit may be repaired into a dark spot, and a method of repairing the display device. The display device includes a substrate, a thin-film transistor arranged on the substrate and including a semiconductor layer and a gate electrode overlapping at least a portion of the semiconductor layer, a...