US Patent Issued to Sharp on April 15 for "Foldable display" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,513, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Osaka, Japan).

"Foldable display" was invented by Yu Yamane (Sakai, Japan), Mayuko Sakamoto (Sakai, Japan) and Tokio Taguchi (Sakai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foldable display, includes a display layer with flexibility including a first display region, a second display region, and a third display region located between the first display region and the second display region; a cover with flexibility configured to cover the display layer; a first support substrate with inflexibility configured to support the first display region; a second support substrate with inflexibil...