ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,702, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device setting touch areas corresponding to each of display areas" was invented by Soo Won Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hyun Jae Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea), Young Sik Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Yun Ho Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Young Seok Yoo (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a display driver for displaying an image on a display panel of the display device, and generating a mode control signal indicating whether the display panel includes at least one of a first display area and...