ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,974, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device including expandable display and content provision method" was invented by Kawon Cheon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyoin Ahn (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yeojun Yoon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Soojung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device according to various embodiments comprises: a housing, a display including a main display area and at least one expandable display area, the at least one expandable display area is hidden in the housing in a slide-in state and exposed to outside in a sli...