ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,054, issued on April 21, was assigned to Acer Inc. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Laptop computer" was invented by Yu-Shih Wang (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Wen-Chieh Tai (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Chih-Chun Liu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Dong-Sheng Wu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Tzu-Wei Lin (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yi-Mu Chang (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laptop computer including a casing, an inner frame, and a plurality of electronic modules is provided. The inner frame is detachably assembled to the casing and forms a plurality of receiving zones separated from each other. The electronic modules are r...