ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,394, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Flexible display panels" was invented by Derek Kyle Joseph Kanas (Spring, Texas), Andre Da Fonte Lopes Da Silva (Palo Alto, Calif.), Christopher Steven (Spring, Texas) and Guoxing Yang (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example, a computing device comprises a base portion and a lid portion rotatably coupled to the base portion. The lid portion comprises a platform, an aperture to receive the platform, and a flexible display panel disposed on the platform. Upon a deployment of the platform, an area of the flexible di...