US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 3 for "Instruction color book painting for dual-screen devices" (Canadian, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,336, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Instruction color book painting for dual-screen devices" was invented by Kapil Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Robert I. Butterworth (Burnaby, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual-screen computing device includes two separate displays that are coupled to an interconnecting hinge. A hinge detector detects movement or position of the hinge, and the positions of the displays may be determined based on the hinge movement or position. The positions of the displays relative to each other may then be used to determine which mode of operation the...