ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,059, issued on March 18, was assigned to T-Mobile USA Inc. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Stimulus-responsive depth-changing display" was invented by Wilfred I. Tucker (Centennial, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes techniques, apparatuses, and systems for a stimulus-responsive depth-changing display. An electronic device includes a flexible display and a stimulus-responsive material disposed at least partially under the display. The electronic device receives image data and determines depth data associated with the image data. An image is displayed on the flexible display based on the image data. While displaying the...