ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,694, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Keun Woo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Mee Jae Kang (Yongin-si, South Korea), Doo Na Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yun Jung Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yong Su Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Jae Hwan Chu (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a plurality of pixels connected to gate lines and data lines; a gate driver to supply a gate signal to the gate lines; and a data driver to supply a data signal to the data lines. The gate driv...