ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,989, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co. Ltd. (Atsugi, Japan).
"Data processing device" was invented by Hiroshi Matsumoto (Aiko, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a highly browsable data processing device or a highly portable data processing device, a data processing device including the following is devised: an input/output unit provided with a display portion which can be folded and unfolded and a sensor portion that can sense the folded and unfolded states of the display portion and can supply data on fold, and an arithmetic unit that stores a program for executing different proce...