ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,090, issued on April 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Support plate for folding portable display device" was invented by Yongho Lim (Chicago), Peiwen Hung (Taipei, Taiwan) and Tingwei Hsu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example folding device comprising: a first housing; a second housing; a hinge assembly rotatably connected to the first housing and the second housing; a continuous display connected to and across the first housing and the second housing; and a first collapsible support plate connected to the first housing and configured to support the continuous display when the folding dev...