ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,639, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Display device" was invented by Hyeon Bum Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Joon Woo Bae (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyun Ho Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Hyoeng Ki Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a substrate comprising emission and non-emission areas. A light-emitting element overlaps the emission area and is on the substrate. A thin-film encapsulation layer overlaps with the emission and non-emission areas and is on the light-emitting element. A touch sensor layer is on the thin-film encapsul...