ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,119, issued on June 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Sliding latch for retention of peripheral device" was invented by Rong Yu Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Hsu Min Jen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chun Hsiung Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Shu Hao Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A latch assembly may include a guide base configured to fixedly couple to a circuit board and having a guiding feature, an axis configured to rotatably couple to the circuit board and having a driving feature, and a sliding latch including a guide feature configured to mechanically engage with the guiding feature to constrain ...