US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Water ingress protection for electronic device hinge" (Washington, Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,008, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Water ingress protection for electronic device hinge" was invented by Royce Dean Chang (Bothell, Wash.), Aaron Bobuk (Bellevue, Wash.), Brett W. Selvig (Portland, Ore.), Samuel Adam Heard (Albany, Calif.), Adam Petri (Seattle) and Joseph Park (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted device may include a frame having an inner peripheral edge defined within a peripheral region of the frame, a temple extending from the peripheral region of the frame, and a hinge assembly coupling the temple to the frame. The head-mounted ...