ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,359, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device and driving method with variable frequency of display according to fingerprint sensing" was invented by Soon Gyu Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes: a display panel including a sensing area having display pixels and sensing pixels; a sensing panel overlapping with the display panel, the sensing panel including sensing electrodes; a fingerprint sensor overlapping with the sensing panel, the fingerprint sensor having light emitting elements of the display pixels and light receiving...