G06F 1/162
Changing
Official title: {changing, e.g. reversing, the face orientation of the screen with a two degrees of freedom mechanism, e.g. for folding into tablet PC like position or orienting towards the direction opposite to the user to show to a second user}
G06F1/162 (Changing) appears on 615 US grants and 740 published applications in this corpus.
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