ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,480, issued on July 29, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus including a pixel defining layer having openings exposing two portions of a pixel electrode" was invented by Ilgoo Youn (Yongin-si, South Korea), Seungwoo Sung (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jieun Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jintae Jeong (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Minhee Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a substrate; a first circuit unit located on the substrate and including a first thin-film transistor (TFT) and a first storage capacitor; a first dummy circuit unit on th...