ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,719, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).

"Electronic device with foldable display" was invented by Shunpei Yamazaki (Tokyo) and Hideaki Shishido (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electronic device with high portability, a highly browsable electronic device, or an electronic device having a novel light source that can be used in shooting photographs and video. The electronic device includes a camera and a flexible display portion. The display portion has a first region and a second region. The first region has a function of emitting light to a photog...