ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,999, issued on July 29, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).
"Support structures for hardware elements" was invented by Tien Liang Chung (Taipei, Taiwan), Justin Tinhsi Lee (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chien-Yi Wang (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an example, an electronic device comprises a device housing having an outer surface, a pivot element disposed within an indentation having a set of detents, and a support structure rotatable about the pivot element. The support structure may comprise a projecting element to engage with each detent of the set of detents. Upon a force being a...