ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,565, issued on Nov. 4.

"Electronic devices with flexible displays having fastened bent edges" was invented by John Raff (Menlo Park, Calif.), Scott A. Myers (Saratoga, Calif.) and Christopher Stringer (Woodside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may be provided with a display having a flexible substrate with fastened bent edges. The flexible substrate may have an active region that includes an array of light-emitting elements such as organic light-emitting diodes. The flexible substrate may also have inactive regions that lie outside of the active region. The bent edges may include portions of the inactive reg...