ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,016, issued on March 18, was assigned to FOSITEK Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Three-section slide rail device" was invented by Hsu-Hong Yao (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Mo-Yu Zhang (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-section slide rail device includes an outer section, a middle section and an inner section. The middle section includes a middle rail slidably disposed on the outer section, a ball sliding plate slidably disposed on the middle rail, and a leaf spring at one end of the middle rail. The ball sliding plate has a plate body, a synchronizing block and a positioning hole formed on the plate body. The inner ...