ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,707, issued on May 13, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Chulkyu Kang (Yongin-si, South Korea), Sangmoo Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea), Wonkyu Kwak (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jinwoo Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Dongsun Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a substrate including a display area; a first thin film transistor arranged on the display area of the substrate and having a first semiconductor layer including a silicon semiconductor and a first gate electrode insulated from the first semiconductor layer by a...