US Patent Issued on Aug. 12 for "Mobile communication terminals, their directional input units, and methods thereof" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,925, issued on Aug. 12.

"Mobile communication terminals, their directional input units, and methods thereof" was invented by Youngtack Shim (Seoul, South Korea), Jae lark Jung (Goyang-si, South Korea) and Jae kyu Lee (Siheung-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure generally relates to various directional input units of a mobile communication terminal, where such directional input units receive a single user input or multiple concurrent user inputs and then acquires at least one selecting (user) sub-input therefrom while a terminal is in its powered-off state or its off-state. After acquiring the selecting user...