US Patent Issued to Lepton Computing on June 17 for "Aperture mechanism for supporting an invertible flexible display" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,696, issued on June 17, was assigned to Lepton Computing LLC (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

"Aperture mechanism for supporting an invertible flexible display" was invented by Stephen E. Delaporte (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foldable touch screen display device made up of flexible segments that can be folded from a compact state to an expanded state which also includes an aperture that can retract parallel to the respective planes of each flexible display segment structure. The form factor of the compact state is roughly the size of a typical handheld phone or smaller. The form factor of the expanded state is roughly the size of a l...