ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,243, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Slidable electronic apparatus and method for using transparent display in said electronic apparatus" was invented by Wonho Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junyoung Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongjin Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taeyang Song (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sungho Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jonghwa Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Nakhyun Choi (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yangwook Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hojin Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hyunju Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodimen...