ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,414,444, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device having a pattern disposed around a hole" was invented by Youngmin Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Kyung Go (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yongseung Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Jawoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Minjun Jo (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Young Seo Choi (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Haeri Choi (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device including: a display panel including a base layer, a circuit layer, a light emitting element layer, and a hole, wherein the hole passes through the circuit layer...