ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,349,552, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device with ring-shape spacer surrounding transmission area and island-shape spacers in non-display area" was invented by Wonse Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yunkyeong In (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sukyoung Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Youngsoo Yoon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Donghyeon Jang (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yujin Jeon (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Hyunji Cha (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a first substrate, an insulating layer, a plurality of display elements, a plurality of first ...