ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,883, issued on April 22, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Eunhyun Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Eunhye Ko (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yeonhong Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kyoungwon Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sunhee Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Junhyung Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus in which an area of a peripheral area may be reduced while having a simple structure, the display apparatus includes a substrate, a bottom metal layer on the substrate and including a first extension line extending from the periphera...