ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,265, issued on July 8, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Closure detection for foldable devices" was invented by Tom Vandermeijden (San Jose, Calif.) and Samuel Toba (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining a state of a foldable device is provided. The foldable device comprises: a first set of electrodes located in a first portion of the foldable device; a second set of electrodes located in a second portion of the foldable device; a display device configured to display information to a user; and a processing system configured to: drive the first set of electrodes to generate a plural...