ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,950, issued on April 29, was assigned to Legrand AVD (Dayton, Ohio).
"Retracting systems for providing access to adapters" was invented by Jennifer Crotinger (Vista, Calif.), Child Kuan Leok Sun (Irvine, Calif.) and Terry Lynn Smith (Springboro, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter system is provided that facilitates convenient access to a plurality of adapters, e.g., DVI-D to HDMI adapter(s), Micro-HDMI to HDMI adapter(s), Mini-HDMI to HDMI adapter(s), Mini-DisplayPort to HDMI adapter(s), DisplayPort to HDMI adapter(s), VGA to HDMI adapter(s), MNL to HDMI adapter(s), and/or USB to HDMI adapter(s). The adapter system include...