ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,537, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device including an encapsulation structure" was invented by Hyungue Song (Yongin-si, South Korea), Heeseong Jeong (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Sunhwa Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a substrate. A display element is disposed over the substrate. A first inorganic encapsulation layer is disposed on the display element. An organic encapsulation layer is disposed on the first inorganic encapsulation layer. An auxiliary layer is disposed between the first inorganic encapsulation layer and ...