ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,779, issued on March 11, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Supporting structure and foldable display apparatus" was invented by Yin Li (Shanghai) and Chunjun Ma (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A supporting structure that supports a flexible screen includes planar supporting portions and a bending supporting portion. The bending supporting portion includes a bending skeleton and a flexible supporting bar coupled to the bending skeleton, and the flexible supporting bar is in direct contact with the flexible screen. The flexible supporting bar includes a supporting portion and a plurality of con...