ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,284, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Device orientation detection" was invented by Rory Andrew Bruce Mcdonald (Cambridge, Great Britain), Christopher John Wright (London) and Harry Michael Cronin (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program is described including: generating a display pattern including features with spatial variations, wherein the spatial variations are configured to enable determination, by a first radar device, of at least one of an orientation of a first user device, position of the first user device, size of a displa...