ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,417, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Method of manufacturing a display device having a protective film" was invented by Wonju Kim (Asan-si, South Korea), Dohyung Ryu (Yongin-si, South Korea), Wu Hyeon Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Daehyun Hwang (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a display device including coupling a display panel to a first portion of a window member and coupling a protective film to a first portion of the display panel. The step of coupling of the protective film includes bending both edges of the protective film to an a...