US Patent Issued to Sony Group on May 5 for "Mobile phone device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,381, issued on May 5, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Mobile phone device" was invented by Kenicirou Matsumura (Tokyo), Kuniichiro Naruse (Tokyo), Keita Saito (Tokyo), Akira Kurosawa (Tokyo), Hiroki Takagaki (Tokyo), Kiwako Miura (Tokyo), Yuki Kobayashi (Tokyo) and Takehisa Gokaichi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile phone device includes: a display device that switches a display state between first and second display states; a communication unit that executes a call between a first user and a second user who makes a call using another phone device; an image generation unit that generates a first image indicating...