ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,619, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device including a light blocking layer partially exposing an opening in a pixel defining layer" was invented by Sun-Kyu Joo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Keunchan Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jangsoo Kim (Asan-si, South Korea), Jae Cheol Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Gak Seok Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a lower substrate, a pixel defining layer, a light emitting layer, an upper substrate, and a light blocking layer. The pixel defining layer is disposed on the lower substrate ...