ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,620, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Fulian Precision Electronics (Tianjin) Co. LTD. (Tianjin, China).

"Hard disk, fixing device, and hard disk module" was invented by Wen-Hu Lu (Tianjin, China), De-Yang Tian (Tianjin, China) and Shu-Tong Wang (Tianjin, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hard disk, a fixing device, and a hard disk module are provided. The hard disk includes a base shell, a main circuit board mounted on the base shell, a switch mounted on the main circuit board, and a triggering mechanism. The triggering mechanism includes a triggering rod. The triggering rod is slidably arranged on the base shell along a first...