ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,647, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"TV and control method thereof" was invented by Jinhee Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Gowoon Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment of the present invention, a control method of a TV in which an exposed size of a screen is varied by a motor comprises the steps of: controlling the motor so that only part of the screen is exposed; displaying arbitrary content in a state in which only the part of the screen is exposed; when a specific condition for an external device is satisfied by referring to first data stored i...