ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,975, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to RICOH COMPANY LTD. (Tokyo).

"Display device" was invented by Yoshito Saito (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display device includes a housing having a rectangular shape in plan view, a display having a screen surface exposed from a front face of the housing, and a stand disposed on a rear face of the housing and pivotable on a rotation axis at a center in a short-side direction of the housing, to open and close relative to the housing. The stand has a width in a long-side direction of the housing smaller than a width of the housing in the long-side direction."

The patent was f...