ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,136, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to FOSITEK Corp. (New Taipei City, Taiwan).
"Hinge" was invented by An-Szu Hsu (New Taipei City, Taiwan), Yang-Zhong Wu (Shenzhen City, China) and An-Wei Chung (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hinge includes a fixing seat, two rotating units, and two supporting plate units. The two supporting plate units are disposed respectively on the rotating units, and each of the supporting plate units has a main supporting plate having first and second ends respectively proximate to and distal from the fixing seat, an auxiliary supporting plate, and a plurality of resilient members....