ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,557,381, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Wonkyu Kwak (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jaeyong Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a substrate partitioned into a central area and a peripheral area disposed adjacent to the central area. The central area includes a display area; a first insulating layer corresponding to the peripheral area of the substrate; at least one slit corresponding to a region of the first insulating layer; and a cladding layer, which covers the...