ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,847, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display device and method of providing the same" was invented by Kwang Soo Bae (Yongin-si, South Korea), Gee-Bum Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Dae-Young Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a base substrate, a light emitting element layer including a central non-emitting area, an emitting area surrounding the central non-emitting area, and a peripheral non-emitting area surrounding the emitting area, an encapsulation layer covering the light emitting element layer, and a light blocking layer on the ...