ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,082, issued on April 14, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).
"Electronic devices with translating flexible displays and corresponding methods for providing haptic feedback" was invented by Xiaofeng Zhu (Nanjing, China) and Sanjay Dhar (Algonquin, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in an electronic device includes receiving, by a flexible display carried by a blade assembly that is slidably coupled to a device housing and movable between an extended position and a retracted position, user input. The method then delivers, by a translation mechanism in response to the user input, haptic feedback by causing the bl...