ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,479,112, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Multiply Labs Inc. (San Francisco).
"Apparatus for facilitating automated connection" was invented by Christopher Jin Cheng (Castro Valley, Calif.), Jeffrey Ackerman Curhan (Warwick, R.I.), Roger Dean Lo (San Francisco) and Dorothy Szymkiewicz (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a first coupling member for receiving a first device and a second coupling member connected to or formed with the first coupling member at a proximal end portion of the first coupling member. The second coupling member includes a revolving exterior surface having a first revolving segment...