ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,876, issued on July 28, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Electronic device and operation method thereof" was invented by Gyeongtae Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Moonjeong Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Myunghoon Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jookwan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yangwook Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jihea Park (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a housing, a display including a flexible display having a first state where a portion of a display area is drawn into the housing and a second state where a portion of the display area i...