ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,896, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Extendable display device that associates edge force inputs with a control action" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Amal Chandran (Bengaluru, India) and Thomas Yates Merrell (St Charles, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device, method and computer program product enable additional touch function for rollable or scrollable display device. The electronic device presents a function on a flexible display coupled across at least a front of a flexible display support structure and a base housing. The function has interactive fea...