ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,723, issued on March 11, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device with variable display area and operation method thereof" was invented by Gisoo Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Sangheon Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Changdo Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Taeyong Moon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyeongtaek Im (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Yeunwook Lim (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example embodiment, an electronic device outputs, on a second display screen, a page layout output on a first display screen along with another page layout grouped together with th...