ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,384, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Maxell Ltd. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Mobile information terminal and display method for same" was invented by Yasunobu Hashimoto (Kyoto, Japan), Hitoshi Akiyama (Kyoto, Japan), Kazuhiko Yoshizawa (Kyoto, Japan), Mayumi Nakade (Kyoto, Japan) and Nobuo Masuoka (Kyoto, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile information terminal is provided with: a radio receiving device that receives a radio signal of a radio wave source; a sensor that measures an amount of movement and an amount of rotation of the terminal; a display device; and a control device. The control device is configured to estimate the posi...