ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,552, issued on July 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Display device with stretchable non-display region including functional patterns and side metal portions" was invented by Daehyuk Im (Yongin-si, South Korea), Hanbum Kwon (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Kikyung Youk (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a display panel divided into a non-display region including a stretchable region and a display region adjacent to the non-display region, and a flexible printed circuit board disposed to overlap the stretchable region and including circuit pads, where th...