ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,108, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Multiply Labs Inc. (San Francisco).
"Apparatus for facilitating automated connection" was invented by Christopher Jin Cheng (Castro Valley, Calif.), Jeffrey Ackerman Curhan (Warwick, R.I.), Roger Dean Lo (San Francisco) and Dorothy Szymkiewicz (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a port body for holding a first device and a retainer for retaining the port body. The port body includes a base, a stem extending from the base, and one or more first anti-rotation members disposed at the base. The retainer includes first and second retaining members, with the base of th...