ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,456, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp. (Tokyo).
"Latch mechanism and device including latch mechanism" was invented by Michiaki Yoshida (Kanagawa, Japan), Wataru Nakamura (Kanagawa, Japan), Keigo Shinoto (Kanagawa, Japan) and Akira Ueshima (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A latch mechanism includes a main body engagement unit arranged in a main body having an opening or closing body that may open and close, an opening or closing body engagement unit arranged in the opening or closing body, the main body engagement unit includes a first engagement body having a pair of first top portion...