ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,001, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAMSUNG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Digitizer" was invented by Hirotsugu Kishimoto (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Dasom Gu (Asan-si, South Korea) and Chul Ho Jeong (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digitizer includes a base layer including first and second non-folding areas and a folding area disposed between the first and second non-folding areas and foldable with respect to a folding axis extending in a first direction and a plurality of coils disposed on the base layer and including a first coil and a second coil closest to the first coil. Each of the first ...