ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,875, issued on July 15, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Ji Hun Ryu (Yongin-si, South Korea), Eun Jin Sung (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yun Ho Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Ii Nam Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Won Sang Park (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device including a light sensing array layer (LSAL), a substrate, a selective light transmission layer (SLTL), a pixel circuit layer (PCL), a display element layer (DEL), and pixels. The LSAL includes an optical sensor to sense incident light. The substrate is on the LSAL and includes...