ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,757, issued on March 25, was assigned to MAXELL LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Mobile terminal device" was invented by Hitoshi Akiyama (Kyoto, Japan) and Yoshinori Okada (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile terminal device including a camera for imaging the person to be photographed and a flexible and foldable display is provided with a line of sight detection unit for detecting a line of sight of the person to be photographed. Here, when photographing in the state where the mobile terminal device is folded, the mobile terminal device displays a mirror image on the display part on the side of the person to be photographed wh...