ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,925, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display device including protective layer that reduces step height for filling layer" was invented by Dokyung Youn (Suwon-si, South Korea), Keunchan Oh (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sun-Kyu Joo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Min-Jae Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jae Cheol Park (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Chang-Hun Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Woo-Man Ji (Anyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a lower panel including a display element layer and an encapsulation layer disposed on the display element layer, a...