ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,593, issued on March 3, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Foldable electronic device" was invented by Zhaofeng Liu (Beijing), Cuncun Xu (Beijing), Haiyue Li (Beijing) and Xin Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foldable electronic device includes a rotation shaft, a housing assembly and a flexible circuit board. The housing assembly includes a first housing and a second housing, and the first housing and the second housing are rotatably connected to both sides of the rotation shaft, respectively. The first housing has a first arc-shaped surface, and in a process of switching from a folded ...