ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,210, issued on March 18, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Display device having fan-out area and line protection configuration" was invented by Yeon Kyung Kim (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a display area comprising pixels, a fan-out area, a pad area, a display driver, a metal layer disposed on a substrate, a data line, a first voltage line, and a second voltage line extending in a first direction on the metal layer in the display area, a fan-out line electrically connecting the data line to the display driver on the metal layer in the fan-out area, a g...