ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,639, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Thin film transistor array substrate including edge region capping conductive region" was invented by Jong Oh Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Hiroshi Okumura (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jae Woo Jeong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transistor substrate includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer overlapping the substrate, and a gate electrode overlapping the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer includes a channel unit, a conductive unit directly connected to an end of the channel unit, and an edge unit positioned at ...