US Patent Issued to Motorola Mobility on April 29 for "Rollable screen device with piezoelectric sensing" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,676, issued on April 29, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Rollable screen device with piezoelectric sensing" was invented by Thomas Yates Merrell (St Charles, Ill.) and Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In aspects of rollable screen device with piezoelectric sensing, a mobile device includes a rollable display screen configurable in one of multiple display states corresponding to respective device form factors. The mobile device has one or more piezoelectric sensors that detect forces applied to the rollable display screen of the mobile device. The mobile device implements a selection...