ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,601, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Light emitting display device and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Chi Wook An (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Seong Min Cho (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Mi-Ran Ji (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Chan Young Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Yeong Ho Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting display device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area adjacent to the display area; a lower pad electrode on the substrate in the non-display area; a planarization layer overlapping th...