ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,653, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Methods and systems for controlling a translating flexible display of an electronic device in response to scrolling user input" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Rohit Sisodia (Naperville, Ill.), Wu Maoyuan (Fujian, China) and Chen Chen (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in an electronic device includes detecting, with a flexible display carried by a blade assembly that is slidably coupled to a device housing and movable between at least an extended position and a retracted position, user input defining a swipe gesture....