ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,156, issued on May 13, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Pixel circuit and display device having the same" was invented by Junhyun Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyeongseok Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Heejean Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minjae Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Mukyung Jeon (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a substrate, a first active pattern above the substrate, a first gate layer above the first active pattern, and including a first capacitor electrode, a second gate layer above the first gate layer, and including a second capacitor...