ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,550, issued on June 3, was assigned to STAR CO Scientific Technologies Advanced Research Co. (Longview, Texas).

"Systems and methods for controlling a mobile device cover" was invented by Thomas E. Coverstone (Longview, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile application running on a host mobile device is used to control the display of notifications, received by the host mobile device, on a mobile device cover. A single button on the mobile device cover is used to display, configure, and navigate through functionality menus of functions provided by the mobile device cover."

The patent was filed on March 11, 2024, under Applicat...