US Patent Issued to LG Electronics on Oct. 14 for "Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,233, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to LG Electronics Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same" was invented by Changmok Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Junho Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Jinhee Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Eunkyung Choi (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present specification provides a mobile terminal in which a display unit can expand, and a control method therefor. In the mobile terminal of the present invention, when an input signal detected by a sensing unit is equal to or larger than a threshold value, an operation that expands or contracts the display unit ac...