ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,703, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device" was invented by So-Young Park (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Soongyu Lee (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a display layer configured to display an image, a sensor layer disposed on the display layer and including a plurality of first electrodes and a plurality of second electrodes, and a sensor driver configured to drive the sensor layer and selectively operate in a first mode or a second mode different from the first mode. When operating in the second mode, the sensor driver i...