US Patent Issued to LG DISPLAY on June 23 for "Foldable display device" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. RE50,928, issued on June 23, was assigned to LG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Foldable display device" was invented by Tae-Woo Kim (Paju-si, South Korea), Gee-Sung Chae (Incheon, South Korea), Joo-Hye Park (Anyang-si, South Korea), Noh-Jin Myung (Paju-si, South Korea), Seung-Hee Lee (Goyang-si, South Korea), Sang-Hak Shin (Goyang-si, South Korea) and Tae-Hyeong Kwak (Goyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foldable display device comprises a display panel; and a backplate on a surface of the display panel, the backplate including a folding region and unfolding regions at both sides of the folding region, the backpl...