ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,437, issued on July 29, was assigned to DEXIN Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Peripheral device" was invented by Ho-Lung Lu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chin-Lung Lin (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Shun-Chieh Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A peripheral device adapted for connecting to a mobile device is provided. The peripheral device includes a main body, at least one connecting arm, and at least one control module. The main body includes a clamping unit to clamp a mobile device in place. One end of the connecting arm is movably connected to one side of the main body, the connecting arm is movable and close to the one side...