ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,949, issued on April 14, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Electronic devices with translating flexible displays and corresponding methods for presenting notifications without resizing presented application portals" was invented by Xiaofeng Zhu (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in an electronic device includes presenting one or more application portals on a flexible display carried by a blade assembly that is slidably coupled to a device housing and moveable between an extended position and a retracted position. When one or more notifications are generated or received, a translation mechanism tr...