ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,781, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Jung Hun Noh (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yi Joon Ahn (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Woo Im (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device including a display panel, a sound generator disposed on one surface of the display panel, and a porous layer disposed adjacent to the sound generator, in which the porous layer includes a first coupling layer, a second coupling layer, and an intermediate layer interposed between the first and second coupling layers and including a plurality of air pockets, an...