ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,648,097, issued on June 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Foldable display device" was invented by Weihua Mao (Shanghai), Weidong Yu (Shanghai), Jianqing Sheng (Shanghai), Yi Xu (Shanghai), Bo Wu (Shanghai) and Bo Huang (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A foldable display device includes a first frame, a second frame, a rotating shaft assembly, a flexible heat sink and a flexible circuit board. The flexible heat sink and the flexible circuit board passes through the rotating shaft assembly, and the rotating shaft assembly includes a shaft seat, a door plate, a first support plate, and a second supp...