ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,692, issued on July 29, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Seoul National University R&DB Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Display device and light absorber for display device" was invented by Sanghyun Yun (Sejong-si, South Korea), Jae Pil Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hoon Kang (Yongin-si, South Korea), Suhyeon Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Tae Gyu Hwang (Seoul, South Korea) and Jin woong Namgoong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a substrate, a display element layer disposed on the substrate, and a protective layer disposed on the display element layer. The disp...