ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,377, issued on May 5, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Hinge assembly and foldable electronic device" was invented by Hansen Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Wei Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Lei Feng (Shenzhen, China) and Handong Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a hinge assembly and a foldable electronic device. The hinge assembly includes a pivot mechanism and an elastic mechanism disposed on the pivot mechanism. One of the elastic mechanism and a rotation mechanism is fixed to the pivot mechanism, and the other of the elastic mechanism and the rotation mechanism is rotatably...