Microsoft showed Surface Neo and Duo at their annual Surface event back in October. Both Surface Neo and Duo are still in the prototype stage with dual-screen laptop displays held together with a fully rotating hinge that can be adjusted to any angle and now patent for this particular hinge mechanism has been published by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).
A new patent titled “ADJUSTABLE CLOSURE MAGNET FOR HINGED DEVICE WITH ASSISTED OPEN” and the patent includes a diagram of a single link in the hinge mechanism, news portal GSMArena reported.
Microsoft filed the patent in 2019 and it was published online on Friday. The patent talks about the closing mechanism for dual-screen Surface Duo that is more like the newly-launched Samsung Galaxy Fold, would run on Google’s Android.
The Surface Duo will have two 5.6-inch displays that expand to an 8.3-inch screen. It will be able to run apps from the Google Play Store. Surface Neo runs a new version of Windows called Windows 10X and is expected to come at the end of 2020. It is two 9-inch tablets put together into a dual-screen machine so it looks like a notebook.
(With input from agencies)