ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,896, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Portable information handling system housing cover portion with removeable keyboard" was invented by John T. Morrison (Round Rock, Texas), Chiu-Jung Tsen (Zhubei City, Taiwan), Yi-Ming Chou (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chun-Wei Lin (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable information handling system housing secures a cover over a main portion with a keystone releasable to access the housing interior. A speaker in the housing interior operates as a keystone that releases internal components by pressing a battery against a motherboard and...