US Patent Issued to Motorola Mobility on May 12 for "Deformable electronic devices and corresponding methods and systems for determining deformation states" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,524, issued on May 12, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Deformable electronic devices and corresponding methods and systems for determining deformation states" was invented by Steve C Emmert (McHenry, Ill.), Eric J Hefner (Lombard, Ill.) and Bill Ryan (Libertyville, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deformable electronic device includes a flexible display supported by a deformable housing comprising a plurality of linkage members and one or more magnet magnetometer pairs. Each magnet magnetometer pair includes a magnetometer situated in a linkage member of the plurality of linkage members and at least one correspo...