US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 16 for "Systems and methods retaining components in an electronic device" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,983, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Systems and methods retaining components in an electronic device" was invented by Joseph Juseop Park (Seattle), Anne Maristella Pirie (Shoreline, Wash.), Michael Cameron Gordon (Sammamish, Wash.) and Ryan Travis Evans (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fastener (100) for retaining a plurality of components (334, 348) in an electronic device includes a body (102) with a bottom end and a top end, where the bottom end includes a mechanical interlocking feature (104) integrally formed with the bottom end and the top end includes a...