US Patent Issued to Applied Optoelectronics on Sept. 1 for "Hinged housing including a hinge retention mechanism" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,100, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Applied Optoelectronics Inc. (Sugar Land, Texas).

"Hinged housing including a hinge retention mechanism" was invented by William G. Mahoney (Suwanee, Ga.) and Brendan Stringer (Woodstock, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hinged housing with a hinge retention mechanism may be used to house electronic equipment such as an RF amplifier in a hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) network delivering CATV services to subscriber locations. The hinged housing includes housing portions that may be separated by uncoupling hinge members forming one or more hinges, for example, to replace or repair the electronic ...