ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,877, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Electronic device" was invented by Hirotsugu Kishimoto (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Dasom Gu (Asan-si, South Korea), Jaiku Shin (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Yonghyuck Lee (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Hongkwan Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yongchan Jeon (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Chul Ho Jeong (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunjun Cho (Seoul, South Korea) and Sohra Han (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a display panel including a folding area and a non-folding area which is adjacent to the folding area....