ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,602, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Mobile terminal" was invented by Jaewook Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Jaewook Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Insu Song (Seoul, South Korea) and Sungchul Hong (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a mobile terminal switchable from a first state to a second state extended in a first direction, the mobile terminal comprising: a first frame; a second frame slidable in the first direction with respect to the first frame; a roller coupled to the end of the second frame in the first direction; a flexible display including a fixing part coup...