ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,638, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to FOSITEK Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Hinge" was invented by An-Szu Hsu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yang-Zhong Wu (Shenzhen, China) and An-Wei Chung (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hinge connectable with two housing parts to allow opening and closing thereof includes a mounting seat, two rotary units and two lateral support plates. The mounting seat has two first arcuate slots at two sides of a central line. The rotary units are connected with the mounting seat at the two sides of the central line for mounting the housing parts, and shiftable between an unfolded state and a folded ...