ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,641, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display panel including protrusions overlapping folding area and electronic device including the same" was invented by Sangjae Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Joonggun Chong (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Dong-Hee Lee (Cheonan-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a display panel in which a display area and a non-display area are defined. The display panel includes a base layer in which a first non-folding area, a second non-folding area, and a folding area are defined, a plurality of pixels disposed on t...