US Patent Issued to BELKIN INTERNATIONAL on Oct. 6 for "Interchangeable plug for a power adapter and methods for providing and using the same" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,146, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to BELKIN INTERNATIONAL INC. (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Interchangeable plug for a power adapter and methods for providing and using the same" was invented by Linzhi Yang (Shenzhen, China), Haiou Jiang (Shenzhen, China), Ming Xu (Shenzhen, China), Yan Zhuang (Shenzhen, China), Haiqiang Zhong (Shenzhen, China) and Kwanghyun Choi (Fullerton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interchangeable plug for a power adapter can include a first coupling mechanism raised above a rear surface of the interchangeable plug and configured to be releasably coupled to a first engagement mechanism of the power adapte...