ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,369,265, issued on July 22, was assigned to Elo Touch Solutions Inc. (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Apparatus with cable constraining device" was invented by XiaoMing Lv (Jiangsu, China), Hui Yang (Jiangsu, China) and Wancheng Ji (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to an apparatus with a cable constraining device. The apparatus Includes a housing and a cable Interface provided on the housing. The cable interface is able to connect to a cable. The cable constraining device includes a cable binding strap and a manipulation-assembly for manipulating the cable binding strap. The manipulation-assembly is config...