ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,831, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Soung Wook Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Seok Gyu Yoon (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jun Yong Shin (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jin Soo Jung (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kun Wook Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Min Soo Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes display pixels arranged in a display area of a display panel, near-infrared light emitting pixels alternately arranged with the display pixels, light sensing pixels alternately arranged with the display pixels, a display sc...