US Patent Issued to Crestron Electronics on Jan. 28 for "Cable retractor for rotatable docking station" (New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,383, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Crestron Electronics Inc. (Rockleigh, N.J.).

"Cable retractor for rotatable docking station" was invented by King Woo Cheung (New City, N.Y.) and Ningsheng Zhu (Whippany, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cable retractor includes a frame having first and second frame ends, opposing frame walls between the frame ends, and a track extending along one of the frame walls. A block slides along the track. A single first pulley is coupled to the block, is rotatable about a first axis that moves together with the block, is the sole pulley that is rotatable about the first axis, and has only a singl...