ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,710, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Futaijing Precision Electronics (Yantai) Co. Ltd. (Yantai, China) and HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Locking mechanism and rotating lifting platform employing mechanism" was invented by Chi-Cheng Wen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Sheng Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chih-Cheng Lee (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chiung-Hsiang Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chang-Ju Hsieh (New Taipei, Taiwan), Yu-Cheng Zhang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Sheng-Li Yen (New Taipei, Taiwan), Chen Chao (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chen-Ting Kao (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking mechanism comprises...