ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,198, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Dong Hyun Son (Seoul, South Korea), Sung Hoon Moon (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Sung Jun Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Kohei Ebisuno (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Deok Hoi Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Sanghoon Oh (Gangwon-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a base substrate including a display area in which an image is displayed and a peripheral area adjacent to the display area, a source/drain pattern on the base substrate, the s...