US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 15 for "Electronic devices with flexible displays" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,009, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic devices with flexible displays" was invented by Wenyong Zhu (Saratoga, Calif.), ByoungSuk Kim (Palo Alto, Calif.), Hao Chen (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sijun Niu (Santa Clara, Calif.), Wei Lv (San Jose, Calif.), Han-Chieh Chang (San Jose, Calif.) and Zhen Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may have a hinge that allows the device to be flexed about a bend axis. A display may span the bend axis. The device may have a stainless steel and/or carbon fiber reinforced polymer layer with slots. The slots may overlap the ...