ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,697, issued on June 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Bendable and foldable display screen to provide continuous display" was invented by Guy M. Therien (Beaverton, Ore.), David W. Browning (Portland, Ore.) and Joshua L. Zuniga (Damascus, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are generally directed to a flexible overlapping display. An embodiment of a mobile device includes a processor to process data for the mobile device, a bendable and foldable display screen, one or more device sensors to sense an orientation of the mobile device, and one or more display sensors to sense a current arrangement of th...