ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,457, issued on May 27, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Display device having a plurality of areas driven in a plurality of modes" was invented by Do Yeon Hwang (Yongin-si, South Korea), Kwang-Min Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Inhyeok Yeo (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 first area and a second area; and a panel driver configured to drive the display panel, to provide a first mode control signal to pixels in the first area, and to provide a second mode control signal to pixels in the second area, wherein the first area i...