ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,535, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Electronic device including elastic member" was invented by Hyunggwang Kang (Suwon-si, South Korea), Myunghoon Kwak (Suwon-si, South Korea), Junhyuk Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea), Soyoung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jookwan Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Hoyoung Jeon (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Hojin Jung (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an electronic device may include: a housing including a first housing and a second housing configured to guide sliding movement of the fir...