ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,010, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Device orientation detection" was invented by Rory Andrew Bruce McDonald (Cambridge, Great Britain), Christopher John Wright (London) and Harry Michael Cronin (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: detecting, at a second user device, one or more display patterns displayed at a display of a first user device, wherein the one or more display patterns comprise features with spatial variations configured to be detected by a radar module of the second user device; determining...