ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,577, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Hee Jean Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hee Rim Song (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Mu Kyung Jeon (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device including: a base layer; a backplane structure provided on the base layer and including a pixel circuit and a sensor circuit; a pixel layer provided on the backplane structure and including a light-emitting element connected to the pixel circuit and a light-receiving element connected to the sensor circuit; and an encapsulation layer covering the pi...