ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,251, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

"Display apparatus" was invented by Mijung Han (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Youngdae Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a display element; a substrate including: an opening area, a display area adjacent to the opening area, a non-display area between the opening area and the display area, and a boundary line separating the opening area from the non-display area; an encapsulation layer including: a first inorganic encapsulation layer, an organic encapsulation layer and a second inorganic enc...