ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,034, issued on March 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Convertible computing device with conference form factor" was invented by Sean J. W. Lawrence (Bangalore, India) and Deepti Patil (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for an adaptable computing device, including a device configuration that is convertible between a flat, personal computing orientation and a polyhedron multi-user orientation, and related software for control of audio and video features. An example configuration includes: a segmented display screen to output a display from a plurality of segments repositionable ...