ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,948, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Rollable electronic device including gear assembly" was invented by Hojin Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Moonsun Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hyoungtak Cho (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yangwook Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Changryong Heo (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a housing including a first housing and a second housing configured to receive at least a portion of the first housing and move relative to the first housing, a display configured to be rolled or unrolled based on a slide of...