ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,621, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Jung Woo Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kwang Soo Bae (Yongin-si, South Korea), Byung Han Yoo (Yongin-si, South Korea), Dae Young Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Hyun Dae Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a light emitting sub-pixel disposed in a display area, a light receiving pixel disposed in one of the display area or a non-display area, and a touch sensing layer including a sensing conductive layer overlapping with the light receiving pixel."

The patent ...