ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,789, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Light-emitting device comprising flexible substrate and light-emitting element" was invented by Hiroaki Iijima (Osaka, Japan), Akihito Miyamoto (Osaka, Japan), Kenichi Sasai (Osaka, Japan), Yoshichika Osada (Osaka, Japan) and Masumi Izuchi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The light-emitting device includes a flexible substrate, a lower barrier layer positioned above the flexible substrate, a light-emitting element and a thin-film transistor controlling the light-emitting element positioned above the lower barrier layer, a first upper...