ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,171, issued on July 1, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Electronic devices with translating flexible displays and corresponding methods for automatic transition to peek position" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Daniel P Groebe (Lake Zurich, Ill.), Marcello Zuffo (Chicago) and Jeffrey T Snow (Barrington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a device housing, a front-facing imager, one or more sensors, a blade assembly carrying a blade and slidably coupled to the device housing and operable to slidably transition between an extended position where the blade extends bey...