LG Display received the Sejong the Great Award, the top honor in the Korean Intellectual Property Office’s 2026 Patent Technology Awards, for a patent that enables thinner OLED TV bezels.

The patented design improves the gate-in-panel circuit along the screen’s edges by combining redundant circuits into shared core blocks while maintaining display performance.

Compared with the previous design, it cuts the transistor count by 74% and circuit area by about 40%; on a 65-inch OLED TV, bezel width falls from 6.5 millimeters to 4.3 millimeters, a reduction of about 34%.

The more integrated design has streamlined manufacturing and delivered cumulative cost improvements of about 385 billion won, or $265 million.

LG Display filed the related patent in South Korea, the United States, Germany and China in 2020, and has used the technology across its 42- to 97-inch OLED TV panels since 2022; production using the design has reached about 28.3 million units.

Since 2025, the company has also expanded the technology to high-performance gaming-monitor OLED panels.

The awards recognize outstanding inventions among patents registered with the Korean Intellectual Property Office within the past 10 years.

LG Display said it plans to further develop ultra-slim-bezel technology and pursue core patents; lead inventor Shin Hong-jae and Hong Bu-seon said the award recognized the work and supported the company’s efforts to differentiate its products and strengthen its technology leadership.

The award highlights the design’s potential advantages in both product design and cost, while the patent may help protect the circuit design from imitation.