ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,232, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Mobile communication device" was invented by Qing De Xia (Shanghai), Klaus Heinz Goebel (Taipei, Taiwan), Jun Liu (Shanghai), Matan Levy (Zur Moshe, Israel), Yan Lu (Shanghai) and Joy Poddar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile communication device having a first component and a second component is provided. The first component and the second component are configured movable relative to each other within a predefined position range. The predefined position range includes a plurality of positions of the first component relative to the second...