ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,898, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to E Ink Holdings Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Foldable assembly and foldable display device" was invented by Kenji Nakazawa (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Keisuke Hashimoto (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Yue-Feng Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Deng-Kuen Shiau (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Chih-Chia Chen (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foldable assembly includes a main body, a left first guide slot, a right first guide slot, a left swing arm, a right swing arm, a left hinge plate, a right hinge plate, a left housing and a right housing. A left first through hole of the left swing arm is pivotally connected to a positioni...