ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,652,768, issued on June 9, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Electronic device including sliding device" was invented by Seongjin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minseok Park (Suwon-si, South Korea), Gabseong Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyungsok Yeo (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Igor Ivanov (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a display area having a variable size by sliding of a slidable housing, and a sliding assembly which is connected to the housing. The sliding assembly includes sliding guides slidable relative to each other and together with each othe...