US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Oct. 20 for "Latch assembly for securing battery inside battery housing of power equipment" (North Carolina, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,693, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Latch assembly for securing battery inside battery housing of power equipment" was invented by Christopher Todd Walker (Hillsborough, N.C.) and Shivang Desai (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A latch assembly for a power equipment includes a lever configured to pivot about a fulcrum, a latch button coupled to the lever and configured to move vertically in response to the pivoting of the lever about the fulcrum, and a roller rotatably engaged to the latch button and adapted to be removably engaged with a battery of the power equipment to removably secu...