ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,761, issued on June 10, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Methods and systems for controlling a translating flexible display of an electronic device in accordance with a learning curve" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Thomas Yates Merrell (St. Charles, Ill.) and Xiaofeng Zhu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a blade assembly with a flexible display and a translation mechanism that adjusts the movement of the blade assembly based on user input. The device detects user input and translates the blade assembly at varying speeds depending on the category of ...