US Patent Issued to E Ink Holdings on March 4 for "Flexible display device having supporting layer" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,243,448, issued on March 4, was assigned to E Ink Holdings Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Flexible display device having supporting layer" was invented by Kuo Chang Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yi-Sheng Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chen-Chu Tsai (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible display device includes a supporting layer and a flexible display panel. The supporting layer has two non-folding regions and a folding region between the two non-folding regions. The folding region has a central region and two edge regions. Each of the edge regions is located between one of the two non-folding regions and the central region, and open p...