US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on July 7 for "Open close detection for foldable displays" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,140, issued on July 7, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Open close detection for foldable displays" was invented by Yue Ding (Beijing), Bowei Chen (Shenzhen, China) and Pengcheng Wen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising measuring raw data by simultaneously driving a plurality of channels of a foldable device, collecting the raw data from a first channel on a first portion and a second channel on a second portion of the device, the first channel being positioned opposite from the second channel relative to a folding axis of the foldable device, determining a distance between the fi...