ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,478, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Display device and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Jin-Suk Lee (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea), Kohei Ebisuno (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jong Min Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yong Ho Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a substrate including an opening area, a peripheral area adjacent to the opening area, and a display area adjacent to the peripheral area; a semiconductor layer overlapping the display area, disposed on the substrate, and including a channel; a gate electrode overl...