US Patent Issued to Lepton Computing on Aug. 11 for "Augmented display expansion for a mobile device" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,000, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Lepton Computing LLC (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

"Augmented display expansion for a mobile device" was invented by Stephen E. Delaporte (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable touch screen display device made up of a flexible display that can be reconfigured from a compact state to a plurality of expanded states. The form factor of the compact state is roughly the size of a typical handheld phone or smaller. The form factor of each of the expanded states is roughly the size of a tablet computer. An internal mechanism is provided for synching the motion of the device's expansion with the mo...