ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,939, issued on May 5, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).
"Flexible display device and metal plate therefor" was invented by Min Sok Jang (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible display device includes: a display panel including pixels, where a folding area is defined in the display panel; and a metal plate disposed on a rear surface of the display panel, where the metal plate includes: a lower metal plate; an upper metal plate including a step portion; and a main spacer and a subspacer disposed between the lower metal plate and the upper metal plate, where the subspacer overla...