US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Feb. 25 for "Hinge assembly for mobile computing device" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,687, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hinge assembly for mobile computing device" was invented by Kabir Siddiqui (Sammamish, Wash.) and Daniel Clark Park (Woodinville, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hinged mobile computing device includes a first housing part with a first display and a second housing part with a second display. The first and second housing parts are coupled by a hinge assembly that includes a spring-loaded opening mechanism configured to bias with a biasing torque the first housing part and second housing part to rotate away from each other when the firs...