ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,671,758, issued on June 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Display assembly with multi-segment flex" was invented by Yongho Lim (Chicago), Michael J. Lombardi (South Barrington, Ill.), Joseph Allore (Mundelein, Ill.), Tyler J. Ewing (San Francisco), Michael E. Bentz (Chicago) and Avi Pinchas Hecht (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example mobile computing device includes a display assembly comprising: a display panel that includes light emitting elements; and a display flex comprising: a first rigid circuit board connected to the display panel via a first flexible printed circuit connection at a first...