ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,491, issued on May 20, was assigned to UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University (Seoul, South Korea).

"Foldable portable device" was invented by Seung Han Park (Seoul, South Korea), Dae Yeon Kim (Incheon, South Korea), Jae Hoon Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Ha Rim Jeong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foldable portable device is disclosed. The foldable portable device according to the present invention includes a first body provided with a first lens configured to recognize an object and a first image sensor configured to detect an image of the object recognized by the first lens, a second bod...