ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,405, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus and method of manufacturing display apparatus" was invented by Ji-Hyun Ka (Asan-si, South Korea), Seung-Kyu Lee (Asan-si, South Korea), Hwan-Soo Jang (Asan-si, South Korea) and Jin-Tae Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area, a peripheral area surrounding the display area, a function-adding area, of which at least a portion is surrounded by the display area, and a detour area disposed between the display area and the function-adding area. Th...