ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,750,437, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to HONOR DEVICE Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Damping mechanism and terminal" was invented by Mingqian Gao (Shenzhen, China), Yaolei Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Yameng Wei (Shenzhen, China), Lei Feng (Shenzhen, China) and Haifei Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a damping mechanism. An elastic member, where the elastic member includes a first pin and a second pin; a first fixing member, where the first fixing member is rotatably connected to the second pin in a first direction; and a first swinging member, where the first swinging member includes a first fi...