US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG DISPLAY on July 15 for "Display device having discharge patterns in a pad area to discharge static electricity introduced into a driver" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,627, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device having discharge patterns in a pad area to discharge static electricity introduced into a driver" was invented by Jeongoh Jin (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Cheolhwan Eom (Asan-si, South Korea) and Jeong-Hun So (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device may include a substrate, input pads, output pads, a driver, discharge patterns, and ground lines. The substrate may include a display area and a pad area. The input pads may be disposed in a first portion of the pad area. The output pads may be dispose...