ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,607, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Foldable input device" was invented by Pengfei Lei (Shenzhen, China), Stephen chi hung Chiu (Kaohsiung, Taiwan), Kelong Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Haiji Sun (Shenzhen, China) and Simon Cameron Dearsley (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed that relate to an input device foldable between a flat orientation in which both ends of a module comprising a sensor are within the input device and a curved orientation in which one end of the module protrudes. A head portion comprises a recess containing the module. A foldabl...