ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,109, issued on June 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Message conversion and message passthrough between devices and a processor in a multi-panel computing device" was invented by Marko Bartscherer (Cornelius, Ore.), Israel A. Cepeda Lopez (Orangevale, Calif.), Antonio S. Cheng (Portland, Ore.), Ke Han (Shanghai), Manjunatha Kondappa (Folsom, Calif.), Hongjun Li (Shanghai), Xinpeng Sun (Shanghai), Feng Xu (Shanghai), Xiang Ye (Shanghai) and Qipeng Zha (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor in a lid portion of a computing device. The processor is communicatively coupled to a plural...