ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,972, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Guangdong Shuowei Technology Co. Ltd. (Dongguan, China).

"Support structure for protective housing of electronic product" was invented by Wenhong Ma (Guangdong, China) and Jiawei Gao (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support structure for a protective housing of an electronic product includes a support assembly including a protective housing connection plate, a slant support plate, and a support plate. One end of the slant support plate is disposed on a side of the protective housing connection plate in a rotation manner through a first rotating shaft, a torsion spring is sleev...