ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 15 -- United States Patent no. 11,983,039, issued on May 14, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Jaechun Park (Yongin-si, South Korea), Woosong Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Kyujin Cho (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a curved plastic substrate, a display element layer over a first surface of the plastic substrate, a thin film encapsulation layer over the display element layer, a light absorption layer curved in conformity with the plastic substrate, the light absorption layer being over a second surface of the plastic substrate, the second surface being oppo...