ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,264, issued on July 22, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Electronic device having flexible display" was invented by Hyungsoo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jaeho Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jungjin Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Minsung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Iksu Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a flexible display slidably coupled to a housing and including a first portion exposed outside the housing and a second portion connected to the first portion and both extendable out of and retractable into the housing together with slidin...