ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,176, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to FCL Components Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Electronic device housing" was invented by Shinichiro Akieda (Tokyo), Takuro Tanabe (Tokyo) and Tamotsu Koike (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing for housing an electronic device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes an upper case and a lower case which are formed so as to mate with each other, a gasket arranged between the upper case and the lower case, an elastically deformable cantilever which is formed on one of the upper case and the lower case and which has a hook, and an engagement portion formed on the other of the upper case...