ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,084, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Display apparatus" was invented by Minsik Jung (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jeonghwan Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Junhwi Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yongduck Son (Yongin-si, South Korea), Dabin Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Wonho Jang (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a substrate, a thin-film transistor, a display element, a pad, a contact layer, and a pad-protecting layer. The substrate includes a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area. Each of the thin-film transistor...