ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,489, issued on April 21, was assigned to TOSHIBA GLOBAL COMMERCE SOLUTIONS INC. (Durham, N.C.).
"Latch system for latching a card to a board" was invented by Jui-Chieh Guo (Taipei, Taiwan), Ming-Lei Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Chen-ming Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Yu Fen Hung (Taoyuan, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a board defining a slot. The slot has a channel that interconnects at least two enlarged openings, including a locking opening. The apparatus also includes a card and a locking slide. The locking slide has a neck and retainer segments on opposing sides of the neck that retain the locking slide in the ...