ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,696, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device and method of manufacturing the same" was invented by Hung Kun Ahn (Yongin-si, South Korea), Young Do Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Han Sun Ryou (Yongin-si, South Korea), Jung Hyun Oh (Yongin-si, South Korea), Byung Seo Yoon (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Myung Ki Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device has unfoldable areas and a foldable area between the unfoldable areas. The display device includes a display module and a plate that supports the display module under the display module. The plat...