ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,944, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Samsung Display Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device and method for driving the same" was invented by Hyungbae Kim (Yongin-si, South Korea), Gwang-Bum Ko (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Sanghyun Lim (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes: a display panel; a sensor layer on the display panel, the sensor layer having a sensing area corresponding to a display area of the display panel, the sensing area comprising a first area and a second area surrounding the first area; and a sensor driver configured to: drive the sensor layer; receive...