ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,555, issued on March 24, was assigned to SABIN LLC (Chicago).
"Hinging alignment tabs in semi-rigid substrate" was invented by Lucas Baird (Chicago), Samuel Riehl (Chicago) and Wes Cox (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein describe an alignment device for providing mechanical alignment between multiple semi-rigid fibrous bodies. The alignment device includes a first semi-rigid fibrous body comprising an alignment tab attached to the first semi-rigid fibrous body through a hinge; and a second semi-rigid fibrous body comprising a mating cavity cut into the second semi-rigid fibrous body, where the alignm...