US Patent Issued on March 24 for "Display unit with drive mechanism" (New Jersey, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,545, issued on March 24.

"Display unit with drive mechanism" was invented by Bijan Sepahpour (Pennington, N.J.), Tyler Fedorko (Cinnaminson, N.J.), Nicolas Moriello (Old Bridge, N.J.) and Reid Carrico (Indianapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drive mechanism (106) having a motor unit (202), a primary shaft (204), a drive piece (224), and a plurality of plates (212). The motor unit (202) generates a rotational force to rotate a motor shaft (304) that thereby rotates the primary shaft (204), which rotates the drive piece (224). The drive piece (224) includes a plurality of pins (506) that revolve around the primary shaft (204). E...