ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. RE50,285, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Display device" was invented by Hwajun Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Hyungnam Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Taejun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Hyein Jung (Seoul, South Korea) and Kunsik Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a body; a roller rotatably installed in the body; a flexible display configured to be wound or unwound from the roller in response to a rotation of the roller; and a controller configured to detect a type of a content to be displayed, and change a screen size of the flexible display according to the det...