ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,001, issued on May 20, was assigned to Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Electronic device capable of expanding display region and method for controlling screen thereof" was invented by Sungmin Hong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Wankyu Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Myunghoon Kwak (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Changryong Heo (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to certain embodiments, an electronic device performs: displaying a first screen lay; sensing a change in the size of the viewable portion of a flexible display through at least one sensor; displaying a list comprising at least...