US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 8 for "Systems and methods for illuminated logo movement" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,243, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods for illuminated logo movement" was invented by Kaitlyn Marley Schoeck (Seattle), Robyn Rebecca Reed McLaughlin (Seattle), Casey Cook Zelig (Seattle), Siyuan Ma (Seattle), Sang Ho Yoon (Redmond, Wash.), Shantanu Yadunath Thakurdesai (Denton, Texas) and James David Holberry (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of selectively illuminating part of an electronic device includes obtaining a posture status of a hinge supporting a display cover relative to a base of the electronic device and illuminating an opti...