ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,016, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Removable hinge caps" was invented by Derek Kyle Joseph Kanas (Spring, Texas), Tony Seokhwa Moon (Spring, Texas) and Michael John Bugos (Spring, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a hinge assembly can include a hinge bar including a rotation axis, a lock cam including a protrusion, the lock cam located coaxially with the rotation axis of the hinge bar, and a removable hinge cap to cover the hinge bar and the lock cam where the removable hinge cap includes a lock flange, and where the protrusion is located adjacent to the loc...