US Patent Issued to Motorola Mobility on March 25 for "Providing user feedback via a rollable screen device" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,021, issued on March 25, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Providing user feedback via a rollable screen device" 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 providing user feedback via a rollable screen device, a mobile device has a housing and a screen moveable relative to the housing such that the mobile device has a compact form factor and an expanded form factor. The mobile device includes one or more sensors positioned relative to the screen for detecting user input including one or more forces applied to an expande...