US Patent Issued to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS on Dec. 30 for "Portable communication device with knob rotation locking mechanism" (Australian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,917, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).

"Portable communication device with knob rotation locking mechanism" was invented by Arun Krishnan (Hilbert, Australia), Goktug Duman (Miami) and Thomas Pope (Joondanna, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable communication device includes a main housing, and a knob coupled to the main housing. The knob is rotatable about a first axis that extends into the main housing, and the knob includes a channel that extends partially circumferentially about the first axis. The portable communication device also includes a button coupled to the main housing. ...