US Patent 6879319 Integrated OLED display and touch screen

An integrated OLED display and touch screen is made by the steps of: providing a substrate; forming a top-emitting OLED display on the substrate, the display including light blocking circuit elements extending to an edge of the substrate; providing a transparent encapsulating cover; forming a touch screen on a first side of the transparent encapsulating cover, the touch screen having light blocking circuit elements extending to a corresponding edge of the transparent encapsulating cover; locating the encapsulating cover over the substrate with a light curable adhesive located between the light blocking circuit elements of the display and the touch screen; and curing the light curable adhesive to hermetically encapsulate the OLED display.