ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,977, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (South Korea).

"Electronic device including flexible display and method of operating the same" was invented by Byungwoo Min (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Bokyou Ko (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Jihea Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a housing including a first housing and a second housing movably coupled to the first housing, a battery, a flexible display, wherein a size of a display area of the flexible display, which is exposed to outside of the electronic device, is changed from a first size to a second s...