ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,599, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to FOSITEK Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Supporting apparatus and foldable electronic device having the same" was invented by Chun-Han Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Yung-Chih Tseng (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foldable electronic apparatus includes a flexible display, a housing unit, and a supporting device. The supporting device includes a flexible first supporting plate, a flexible second supporting plate, and a plurality of supporting members. Each of the supporting members has a first end portion that is connected to the first supporting plate, a second end portion that i...