ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,365, issued on May 27, was assigned to LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Electronic apparatus" was invented by Takayuki Morino (Yokohama, Japan), Daisuke Takahashi (Yokohama, Japan), Masaaki Bandoh (Yokohama, Japan) and Hiroaki Kinoshita (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus has: a tray holding a communication card; a card socket accommodating the tray; an eject mechanism that ejects the tray in response to an operation of inserting a pin; a cover which is provided integrally with the tray and in which an eject hole through which the pin is inserted to operate the eject mechanism is formed; ...