ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,713, issued on June 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Portable information handling system hinge" was invented by Mark Andrew Schwager (Cedar Park, Texas) and Kai-Yuan Cheng (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hinge for a portable information handling system. The hinge includes a cylindrical shaft, the cylindrical shaft including an axially extending substantially flat section and a coil portion, the coil portion having a largely cylindrical interior edge, the largely cylindrical interior edge including a substantially flat section, the substantially flat section of the coil portion and the subst...