ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,507, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and method for recognizing input to flexible display" was invented by Hyunje Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Seungmin Bae (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeongseob Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device and a method performed by the electronic device are provided. The method includes identifying, by the electronic device, an input with respect to a flexible display of the electronic device based on an external object, in response to the input having a first contact point on a first area of ...