ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,747, issued on July 15, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Taekyung Ahn (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sangwoo Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyeonsik Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Dae-Young Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Sanghwan Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device including: a display layer including a light emitting device, a photo-detector, and a dummy device; and a circuit layer including a pixel driving part, which is connected to the light emitting device, and a sensor driving part which is connected to the photo-detector, wher...