ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,506, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Electronic apparatus" was invented by Hirotsugu Kishimoto (Hwaseong-si, South Korea), Yongchan Jeon (Cheonan-si, South Korea) and Chul Ho Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus includes a display module having non-folding areas and a folding area folded along a virtual folding axis, a lower plate which is disposed on a lower portion of the display module and in which lower openings overlapping the folding area are defined, and a digitizer including a first cover layer disposed on a lower portion of the...