US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 14 for "Information handling system visual image inspection to support hinge reuse and recycling" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,770, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system visual image inspection to support hinge reuse and recycling" was invented by Jace W. Files (Round Rock, Texas), John Trevor Morrison (Round Rock, Texas) and Chiu-Jung Tsen (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable information handling system hinge is tested for wear to determine reuse or recycling by subjecting the information handling system to an acceleration and capturing a visual image of hinge movement in response to the acceleration. Excessive hinge wear is detected when housing movement exceeds a thresh...