ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,351, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device including an auxiliary layer" was invented by Jae-Bum Han (Suwon-si, South Korea), Young Gil Park (Asan-si, South Korea), Jung Hwa Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Na Ri Ahn (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Soo Im Jeong (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Ki Nam Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Moon Sung Kim (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device is provided including a substrate. A second semiconductor layer is disposed on the substrate. The second semiconductor layer includes Si. A second gate lower elect...