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Samsung Display Co., Ltd.

Samsung Display Co., Ltd. demonstrates a strong, albeit shifting, focus on display technologies, with Organic Electronics (OLED) comprising 46.9% of its portfolio and experiencing a significant surge in 2024 with 119.2% YoY growth, before a partial decline so far in 2026. Surprisingly, the company has almost entirely deprioritized its legacy semiconductor categories, with 'Specialty Semiconductor Devices (Legacy)' seeing a dramatic 99.7% YoY decline in 2024 and 'Integrated Circuit Layout & Arrangement' plummeting by 99.5% so far in 2026, indicating a clear strategic pivot away from these areas.

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22,202 US filings (since 2023) · 12 categories · 35 themes

Micro-LED Array Fabrication is up +28.5% YoY. Worth a look.
Display Panel Manufacturing & Encapsulation

Techniques and structural designs for fabricating the physical layers of an OLED display, including material deposition, patterning, and methods to protect the active organic layers from environmental degradation like moisture and oxygen.

Organic Electronics (OLED)
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12,133since 2023
+4.5%YoY
Integrated Touch Sensors

Methods and structures for incorporating touch sensing capabilities directly into OLED display panels, typically involving conductive layers and insulating layers within or on top of the display stack.

Organic Electronics (OLED)
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5,348since 2023
+2.7%YoY
Display Pixel Array Structures

Physical layout and material composition of individual pixels within a display panel, including active layers, electrodes, light-emitting elements (LEDs, OLEDs), and associated thin-film transistors (TFTs).

Integrated Circuit Layout & ArrangementLiquid Crystal & Optical Modulators
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5,279since 2023
-3.1%YoY
Pixel and Gate Driver Architectures

Design and implementation of circuits and layouts for driving individual pixels or rows/columns of pixels, including gate drivers, data drivers, pixel driving circuits, and their integration onto the display substrate, often in non-display regions.

Display DriversOrganic Electronics (OLED)Light-Emitting Devices (LEDs)
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3,599since 2023
+17.4%YoY
Electrophoretic Display Control

Techniques for driving electrophoretic displays, including managing remnant voltage, optimizing particle movement, and specific addressing pulse schemes to improve optical quality and update speed.

Liquid Crystal & Optical Modulators
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3,502since 2023
+5.9%YoY
Flexible/Foldable Device Structures

Engineering solutions for creating electronic devices with bendable, foldable, or stretchable form factors, often involving hinges, flexible displays, and sliding mechanisms to enable dynamic physical configurations.

Organic Electronics (OLED)Hardware Platform (Cooling, Power, Packaging)
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3,270since 2023
-0.6%YoY
Micro-LED Array Fabrication

Methods and structures for mass-producing and assembling arrays of micro-LEDs onto a substrate, including transfer processes, bonding techniques, and defect management.

LED & Optoelectronics (Legacy CPC)Light-Emitting Devices (LEDs)
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2,737since 2023
+28.5%YoY
Advanced LED Device Structures

Innovations in the internal design of individual light-emitting diode chips or packages, focusing on semiconductor layer arrangements, electrode configurations, reflective elements, and light extraction features.

Light-Emitting Devices (LEDs)
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2,537since 2023
+24.2%YoY
OLED Emitter Materialsfiltered

Development and optimization of organic chemical compounds and their structures, including guest-host systems and metal complexes, used within the emission layer to achieve specific light emission characteristics such as color, efficiency, and operational lifetime.

Organic Electronics (OLED)Functional Materials (LCD, Lubricants)Specialty Semiconductor Devices (Legacy)
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2,082since 2023
+3.2%YoY
Display Optical Enhancements

Components and techniques aimed at improving the visual quality of OLED displays, such as color accuracy, contrast, brightness uniformity, and reducing reflections or glare through optical layers and coatings.

Organic Electronics (OLED)
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1,941since 2023
+21.5%YoY
Advanced Image Processing for Displays

Algorithms and hardware implementations within display drivers or associated components to enhance visual quality, resolution, or color reproduction, including upscaling, dithering, and compensation for display artifacts like crosstalk.

Display Drivers
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1,763since 2023
+4.0%YoY
Advanced Display Backlight & Optics

Innovations in backlight units, optical films, and light management structures to enhance display performance, uniformity, viewing experience, or specific functionalities like touch.

Liquid Crystal & Optical Modulators
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1,762since 2023
-3.1%YoY
Display Power Management

Techniques and circuits for optimizing power consumption, voltage stability, and energy efficiency in display panels, often involving dynamic voltage scaling, duty cycle control, or remnant voltage management.

Display Drivers
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1,382since 2023
+15.4%YoY
Seamless Display Tiling

Techniques and structural designs for assembling multiple display modules or panels to create a larger, continuous display with minimized visible seams, uniform light emission, and robust mechanical integrity.

Light-Emitting Devices (LEDs)
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1,209since 2023
+15.1%YoY
Display Timing and Signal Synchronization

Methods and circuits for coordinating the timing of display signals, data transmission, and control signals across various display components, ensuring proper image rendering and efficient operation.

Display Drivers
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994since 2023
+21.9%YoY
Display Pixel & Optical Materials

Optical and pixel-defining materials for display panels, including black matrix compositions, color filter pigments, optical alignment films, and pixel-define layers.

Liquid Crystal & Optical Modulators
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650since 2023
-0.9%YoY
Advanced Electronic Packaging

Methods and structures for integrating and enclosing electronic components into compact, multi-functional modules, often involving embedded components, multi-layer substrates, and electromagnetic shielding for performance and miniaturization.

Printed Circuits & Electronic Assemblies
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508since 2023
+21.0%YoY
LED Epitaxial Layer Engineering

Development and optimization of the semiconductor material layers and their interfaces within an LED to control light emission properties, manage internal stress, and improve device efficiency.

LED & Optoelectronics (Legacy CPC)
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348since 2023
-31.0%YoY
Device Enclosure & Material Engineering

Methods and materials used to construct robust and protective enclosures for electronic devices, focusing on structural integrity, impact resistance, thermal dissipation, and specialized material properties for enhanced durability.

Printed Circuits & Electronic AssembliesHardware Platform (Cooling, Power, Packaging)
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281since 2023
+15.3%YoY
LED Optical Extraction & Light Management

Optical structures and lens designs that improve light extraction efficiency from LED dies and modules, including diffractive films, micro-lens arrays, reflectors, and color-conversion layers.

Light-Emitting Devices (LEDs)
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235since 2023
+50.0%YoY
Flexible and Printed Circuitry

Manufacturing processes and material compositions for creating electronic circuits on flexible or conformable substrates, enabling novel form factors, enhanced durability, and new applications beyond rigid PCBs.

Printed Circuits & Electronic Assemblies
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225since 2023
+16.7%YoY
Quantum Dot Semiconductor Structures

Engineering and fabrication of semiconductor structures incorporating quantum dots, often for quantum information processing (e.g., spin qubits) or advanced light-emitting applications, focusing on controlled growth and isolation.

Specialty Semiconductor Devices (Legacy)
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128since 2023
-6.2%YoY
Wearable & Mobile Interaction

Designing user interfaces and interaction methods specifically for mobile or wearable devices, enabling control of external systems, monitoring user states, or facilitating real-world transactions.

Input/Output & User Interfaces
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126since 2023
+56.7%YoY
Liquid Crystal Compositions

Mixtures of liquid crystal compounds and other additives, such as monomers or carbon black, designed to achieve specific optical, electrical, or physical properties for use in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) or other electro-optical devices.

Functional Materials (LCD, Lubricants)
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85since 2023
+52.6%YoY
Multi-Spectral LED Illumination

LED devices and display systems designed to emit or utilize light across different spectral ranges, including visible and invisible light, or to create specific illumination patterns and immersive lighting experiences.

Light-Emitting Devices (LEDs)
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76since 2023
+542.9%YoY
Advanced Transistor Device Architectures

Structural innovations in individual transistors, such as fin-based field-effect transistors (FinFETs), 3D gate structures, or multi-layer active regions, aimed at improving performance or density.

Integrated Circuit Layout & Arrangement
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48since 2023
-70.0%YoY
AR/VR User Interfaces

Techniques for rendering, interacting with, and managing content within augmented or virtual reality environments, including spatial tracking, gaze interaction, and dynamic multi-application display management.

Input/Output & User Interfaces
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42since 2023
-33.3%YoY
Electronics Encapsulation & Sealing

Materials and processes for hermetic encapsulation, conformal coating, optical chip sealing, and stretchable conductors for electronic and optoelectronic devices.

Organic Electronics (OLED)
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25since 2023
+100.0%YoY
Power Delivery & Battery Management

Techniques for efficiently supplying power to electronic devices, managing battery charge/discharge cycles, optimizing power consumption, and converting power between different voltage levels or AC/DC for improved energy efficiency and longevity.

Hardware Platform (Cooling, Power, Packaging)
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21since 2023
-60.0%YoY
CMP Slurry Formulations

Abrasive slurry compositions used in semiconductor manufacturing for planarizing wafer surfaces, typically containing abrasive particles and chemical additives to achieve specific material removal rates and selectivity.

Functional Materials (LCD, Lubricants)
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8since 2023
new
3D Die Stacking & Vertical Interconnects

Techniques for stacking multiple semiconductor dies or active layers vertically to achieve higher density and shorter interconnections, often utilizing through-silicon vias (TSVs) or other vertical conductive paths like through-hole electrodes.

Multi-Chip & 3D Assemblies
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4since 2023
+100.0%YoY
Perovskite Photovoltaic Devices

Fabrication methods and material engineering for halide perovskite-based photoelectronic devices, particularly solar cells, addressing challenges such as material synthesis, nanowire formation, and lead leakage mitigation.

Specialty Semiconductor Devices (Legacy)
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4since 2023
+100.0%YoY
Deep Ultraviolet LED Technology

Specialized design and fabrication of light-emitting diodes specifically engineered to produce light in the deep ultraviolet (DUV) spectrum, often for applications like sterilization or curing.

LED & Optoelectronics (Legacy CPC)
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4since 2023
new
Metasurface & Diffractive Optics

Engineering of artificial subwavelength structures (meta-atoms) to create metasurfaces that manipulate light properties (phase, polarization, wavelength) for multi-functional optical devices.

Liquid Crystal & Optical Modulators
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4since 2023
+100.0%YoY
Heterogeneous Chiplet Integration

Combining different types of functional chiplets (e.g., compute, memory, I/O, optical, power, biological) into a single package or system, often to optimize performance, power, or cost by leveraging specialized components.

Multi-Chip & 3D Assemblies
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1since 2023
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