ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,005, issued on March 17, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Eunwon Seo (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Joon-Ik Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a display panel including non-folding regions and a folding region disposed between the non-folding regions and a lower member disposed under the display panel. The lower member includes a base part including a plurality of portions having different flexural moduli and support lines that are disposed inside the base part and that intersect each other in a plan view and define ope...