ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,592, issued on May 26, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Protective film structure and electronic device comprising same" was invented by Changmook Rim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Suyoung Seo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyeonbeom Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jonghyun Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunsuk Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protective film of a display device includes: a hard coating layer; a transparent adhesive layer; a base layer between the hard coating layer and the transparent adhesive layer; and a primer layer between the transparent adhesive layer and th...