ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,877, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display panel including junction area with asymmetric shape" was invented by Cheho Lim (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Yeogeon Yoon (Seoul, South Korea), Juyong Kim (Busan, South Korea), Sangyeon Hwang (Anyang-si, South Korea), Seungkil Yang (Cheonan-si, South Korea) and Seon Uk Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display panel includes: a light emitting device layer including a light emitting area to emit a first color light; a partition layer on the light emitting device layer, and having a first opening overlapping wit...