ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,545, issued on March 3, was assigned to GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP. LTD. (Dongguan, China).

"Screen splitting method and apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium" was invented by Fanxiu Kong (Dongguan, China), Han Li (Dongguan, China) and Yilun Wan (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A split screen method, an electronic device, and a storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: in response to a two-finger sliding operation acting on a touch screen, obtaining a sliding direction corresponding to the two-finger sliding operation; and splitting a displayable area into a first split screen are...