ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,835, issued on March 18, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device having static electricity discharge element" was invented by Kwang-Min Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Seung-Kyu Lee (Asan-si, South Korea) and Won Kyu Kwak (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device is provided. The display device may include a substrate, a plurality of pixels, a first data line, a second data line, a defect sensing line, a first input pad, and a static electricity discharge element. The substrate may include a display area and a peripheral area neighboring each other. The plurality o...