ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,714, issued on April 7, was assigned to HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan) and HONGFUJIN PRECISION INDUSTRY (WUHAN) Co. LTD. (Wuhan, China).

"Locking structure and electronic device" was invented by Jia-Fu Li (Wuhan, China), Jun-Zhi Xu (Wuhan, China) and Da-Long Sun (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking structure is provided, the locking structure includes a locking panel, a first connecting element, a second connecting element, a latch component, and a locking component. The first connecting element spaced from the second connecting element defines a stop groove, the first connecting element...