US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 17 for "Information handling system hinge having overbend alert" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,289, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system hinge having overbend alert" was invented by Paul Lalinde (Spring, Texas), Anthony J. Sanchez (Pflugerville, Texas) and Allen B. McKittrick (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable information handling system hinge rotates in an operational range with an operational torque and in an overbend range with an overbend torque of at least twice the operational torque. A rotational orientation sensor detects rotation past the operational range into the overbend range and commands an alarm to present an alert, such a...