ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,563, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display device with minimized non-display portion in bezel area" was invented by Tae Hoon Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Min Chae Kwak (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a display area which displays a screen, an inner line disposed outside the display area, and extending to surround the display area, an outer line disposed outside the inner line, a contact pattern overlapping with the inner line and the outer line and electrically connecting the inner line and the outer line to each other, and a connect...