US Patent Issued to Honor Device on April 7 for "Apparatus and method for detecting mounting state of light pipe in terminal" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,055, issued on April 7, was assigned to Honor Device Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Apparatus and method for detecting mounting state of light pipe in terminal" was invented by Chao Yao (Shenzhen, China), Chenlong Li (Shenzhen, China) and Qianying Shi (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and a method for detecting a mounting state of a light pipe in a terminal are disclosed. The detection apparatus includes a fixture, a detection light source, and a light detection module. A light inlet path is formed inside the fixture, an opening that is of the light inlet path and that is exposed to the fixture is opposite to...