US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on Aug. 11 for "External communications ports cover for computing devices" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,883, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"External communications ports cover for computing devices" was invented by David William Reber (Cedar Park, Texas), Zichun Song (Cedar Park, Texas) and Mark Thomas Fountain (Hitchin, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes: a housing having an exterior wall, the exterior wall defining a chamber; an access door movably coupled to the housing between a closed position enclosing the chamber, and an open position exposing the chamber to an exterior of the computing device; a latch movable between a locked position to r...