ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,487, issued on June 24, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Protective film assembly for foldable screen, protective shell and terminal" was invented by Cong Peng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protective film assembly for a foldable screen, including: a fixing portion for being disposed at a side edge of the terminal parallel to a crease of the foldable screen; and a film body for covering the foldable screen. An accommodating cavity is inside the fixing portion, and the film body is configured to at least partially retract into the accommodating cavity in a direction perpendicular to the c...