ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,437, issued on May 27, was assigned to LENOVO (BEIJING) Ltd. (Beijing).

"Support device and electronic apparatus" was invented by Rui Yu (Beijing) and Baolin Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support device includes a support structure, a carrier assembly, and an elastic assembly. The carrier assembly is configured to support a display device. The carrier assembly ascends and descends relative to the support structure. The elastic assembly is connected to the support structure and the carrier assembly and provides different support forces to the carrier assembly to support display devices of different weights."

The paten...