ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,176, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display device having improved reliability of pad portion" was invented by Kohei Ebisuno (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Jin-Suk Lee (Gwangmyeong-si, South Korea), Jong Min Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jun Young Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yong Ho Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; a transistor and a light emitting element, which are disposed on the display area; a pad portion disposed in the non-display area, where the pad porti...