US Patent Issued to NEC on Feb. 3 for "Terminal apparatus having an interlocking portion for interlocking two support portions for rotatably supporting an input device and a display" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,036, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal apparatus having an interlocking portion for interlocking two support portions for rotatably supporting an input device and a display" was invented by Takashi Shimizu (Tokyo), Hiroshi Morimitsu (Tokyo) and Takahiro Ambe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal apparatus (10) is used when target processing being at least one of product registration processing and settlement processing is performed, and includes a first support portion (300), a first display (130), a second support portion (200), and an interlocking portion (400). The first support portion (300)...