ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,289,953, issued on April 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Miran Ji (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyeonbum Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Chiwook An (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Haeyoung Yun (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a display element including an emission area, a thin-film encapsulation layer disposed on the display element, a first insulating layer disposed on the thin-film encapsulation layer, the first insulating layer including an opening that corresponds to the emission area, and a refraction area defined by ...