ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,606, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to LG Display Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Foldable display apparatus" was invented by JongGun Lee (Paju-si, South Korea), JiChul Lim (Pyeongtaek-si, South Korea), SeungUn Park (Daegu, South Korea) and Seoyoung Lee (Paju-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foldable display apparatus includes a display panel including a folding area and a non-folding area, the folding area configured to fold about a folding axis, a first lower retardation layer on the display panel, a second lower retardation layer between the display panel and the first lower retardation layer, a linear polarizer dis...