ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,312, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to IDEMIA PUBLIC SECURITY FRANCE (Courbevoie, France).

"Hinged electronic support for image acquisition device having a plurality of connected flaps including sensors, assembly comprising such a support, and image acquisition device comprising such an assembly" was invented by Jean-Francois Siwek (Courbevoie, France), Ngoc-Son-Dorian Nguyen (Courbevoie, France), Jean-Michel Teyrol (Courbevoie, France) and Rahma Ait Bouhou (Courbevoie, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic support having a body which includes at least one first flap and one second flap, the first flap and the second fla...