ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,980, issued on April 21, was assigned to King Slide Technology Co. Ltd. (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

"Slide rail assembly and method for opening slide rail thereof" was invented by Ken-Ching Chen (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Chun-Ta Liu (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Hsin-Cheng Su (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan), Chih-Yuan Chang (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan) and Shu-Chen Lin (Kaohsiung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A slide rail assembly includes a first rail, a second rail, an elastic member, a movable member and an electronic module. The second rail is movable relative to the first rail. When the second rail is located at a retracted positi...