ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,306, issued on March 4, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).
"Display module including cover member" was invented by Yunjae Kim (Cheonan-si, South Korea), Joonhyuk Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Munsik Ham (Cheonan-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display module includes: a display unit to be folded along a virtual folding axis, and including: a front surface; and a rear surface opposite to the front surface; a protection cover on the front surface of the display unit; a cover member on the rear surface of the display unit, and including a cutting part to be separable from the cover member...