ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,514, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Display device and method of providing the same" was invented by Jiyoon Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Changhee Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Yoolguk Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a base layer, a first electrode on the base layer, a pixel-defining layer in which an opening exposing an upper surface of the first electrode is defined, a protective layer overlapping the pixel-defining layer and between the pixel-defining layer and the first electrode, a functional layer on the first elect...