ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,635, issued on May 12, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device and method of measuring skin moisture using the same" was invented by Kyounghun Been (Asan-si, South Korea), Jinwoo Kim (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Byeongkyu Jeon (Busan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of measuring skin moisture includes: measuring, in response to a touch on a touch panel, a first capacitance for a touch area in association with driving first and second electrodes of the touch panel in a mutual sensing mode; measuring, in response to the touch, a second capacitance for the touch area in ass...