ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,579, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device comprising display with an opaque portion therein and camera device" was invented by Minsuk Uhm (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungyoung Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyunchang Shin (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Byungduk Yang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display and a camera device, the camera device overlaps at least a portion of an active area in a second direction of the display. The display comprises a display panel comprising a first a...