ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,439, issued on Oct. 28.
"Position sensors for system with overlapped displays" was invented by Paul X. Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Tianjia Sun (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chang Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Dominic P. McCarthy (Los Altos Hills, Calif.), Eric Shyr (San Francisco), John B. Morrell (Los Gatos, Calif.) and John P. Ternus (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include electronic devices that communicate wirelessly. When positioned so that a pair of devices overlap or are adjacent to one another, the devices may operate in a linked mode. During linked operations, devices may communicate wirelessly while ...