ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,243, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hybrid computing device, apparatus and system" was invented by Sameer Sharma (Santa Clara, Calif.), Gadi Amit (San Mateo, Calif.), Yoshikuzu Hoshino (San Francisco), Chadwick Harber (San Francisco), Daniel Clifton (San Francisco) and Kenneth Jasinski (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of an apparatus and system are described for a hybrid computing device. Some embodiments may comprise a computing device having an enclosure arranged to support a display on a front of the enclosure and a cover mechanically coupled to a side of the enclosu...