ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,681, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to LG INNOTEK Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).
"Elastic member and display device including same" was invented by Duck Hoon Park (Seoul, South Korea), Hyun Dong Cho (Seoul, South Korea) and Kweon Jin Lee (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastic member according to an embodiment is an elastic member including a first region and a second region, wherein the elastic member has surface roughness having a longitudinal direction, the first region is defined as a folding region, the second region is defined as an unfolding region, a first pattern part having a long direction and a shor...