ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,118, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Dual-screw assembly for device housing" was invented by Daniel T Lau (San Jose, Calif.), Xiaoyi Ma (Stanford, Calif.), Nicholas Zell (San Jose, Calif.) and Andres Ramos (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a device housing and a secondary component removably affixed to the device housing. A dual screw assembly is used to affix the secondary component to the device housing. The dual screw assembly includes a first screw inserted into a housing aperture of the device housing, such that a portion of the fi...