US Patent Issued to COMPAL ELECTRONICS on July 1 for "Locking device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,161, issued on July 1, was assigned to COMPAL ELECTRONICS INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Locking device" was invented by Hung-Yun Wu (Taipei, Taiwan), Pi-Nan Lee (Taipei, Taiwan) and Kai-Chen Tien (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking device includes a base, a hook pivoted to the base to move between an engaging position and a releasing position, a sliding member slidably disposed at the base and locked to the base to maintain the hook at the releasing position, a knob pivoted to the base, and an actuating member slidably disposed at the base. The sliding member slides relative to the base to be disengaged from the hook or...