ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,450, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Chun Lam Group (International) Ltd. (Dongguan City, China).

"Protective support, protective sleeve apparatus and control method thereof" was invented by Jin Wen Liao (Dongguan City, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a protective support, a protective sleeve apparatus and a control method thereof. The protective support includes a backplane for carrying a backshell of a display device, and a supporting side that enables the backplane to be supported at an arbitrary angle to a datum plane. A hinge assembly is layable flat on the datum plane and flexibly connect...