ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,984, issued on July 28, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Methods and electronic devices enabling a video recording mode of operation as a function of support condition" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Rahul Bharat Desai (Chicago) and Srikanth Raju (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method in an electronic device includes detecting, with at least a first sensor, a first device housing of the electronic device being pivoted about a hinge relative to a second device housing to a deformed geometry where the first device housing and second device housing define a substantially orthog...