ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,816, issued on May 13, was assigned to BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method for obtaining data indicating direction, electronic device and storage medium" was invented by Cong Peng (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for obtaining data indicating direction, electronic device and storage medium. This method, applied to an electronic device including a foldable screen with a magnetic sensor, includes: determining, in response to the foldable screen being in a non-folded state, an equivalent plane to which the magnetic sensor is equivalent; obtaining equiva...