ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,317, issued on May 19, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Light emitting diode module and display apparatus having the same" was invented by Soowung Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Changhoon Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Kyoungjun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting diode (LED) module is provided. The LED module includes: a substrate including upper pads; a passivation layer on the substrate and defining openings exposing the upper pads; an LED chip on the passivation layer and including electrode pads electrically connected to the upper pads of the substrate;...