ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,365, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display device and photomask for defining opening in the display device" was invented by Jung-Hyun Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Chi Wook An (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Kang Wook Heo (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a substrate, a pixel electrode disposed on the substrate, a bank layer which is disposed on the pixel electrode and in which a pixel opening overlapping the pixel electrode is defined, an encapsulation layer disposed on the pixel electrode and the bank layer, a sensing electrode dis...