US Patent Issued to Intel on March 24 for "Device to allow sensors to operate when lid is closed" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,306, issued on March 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Device to allow sensors to operate when lid is closed" was invented by Shouwei Sun (Shanghai), Lili Ma (Shanghai), Ke Han (Shanghai), Hemin Han (Shanghai) and Xiaodong Cai (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to include a first housing, one or more sensors located in the first housing, a second housing, and a slope located in the second housing to reflect light radiation to the one or more sensors when the first housing is over the second housing. The electro...