ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,596, issued on March 18, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Taeyong Eom (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yeri Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Youngbae Jung (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes a display module configured to define a display surface on a plane. The display module includes a display panel having a plurality of display elements configured to display an image on the display surface and a pattern layer having a plurality of diffraction patterns arranged at an interval on the dis...