ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,318, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Methods and electronic devices for enabling a video recording mode of operation as a function of device geometry and support condition" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Bill Ryan (Libertyville, Ill.) and Daniel M Vacura (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in an electronic device includes detecting, with one or more sensors, a wrapped geometric form factor defined by a flexible display supported by a deformable housing. The method also includes detecting, with one or more other sensors, gesture input indicating a camcorder suppor...