ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,876, issued on April 15, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Expandable display device" was invented by Jung Hun Lee (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Sun Ho Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Young-Seok Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Tae An Seo (Hwaseong-si, South Korea) and Jin Hwan Choi (Seoul, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible display panel of an expandable display device includes a first side with a display unit, and a second side opposite to the first side. A bending guide includes an external guide that faces part of the first side and has a first curved side, and an internal guide that fac...