US Patent Issued to COMPONENT HARDWARE GROUP on April 7 for "Switch hinge" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,595,696, issued on April 7, was assigned to COMPONENT HARDWARE GROUP INC. (Matawan, N.J.).

"Switch hinge" was invented by James Rowland (Bayville, N.J.) and Viranjitsinh Chudasama (Toms River, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hinge for a door pivotally mounted on a cabinet is provided with a switch for activating an electrical circuit within the cabinet. The switch has a reed sensor mounted within a base of the hinge for activating the electrical circuit and a magnetic actuator affixed to a pivot pin of the hinge for moving relative to the reed sensor to activate the reed sensor between a normally open position deactivating the elec...