ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,087, issued on June 24, was assigned to NEC Platforms Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Retractable tray fixing device and fixing method" was invented by Yuji Horii (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A latch operating portion, which is made of an elastically deformable constituent material, connected to a knob portion of a latch, and operated by an operator to insert and remove a claw portion provided at a latch beam portion into and from a through hole of trays, is provided, and in a case in which the knob portion is pushed toward a wall portion by a fingertip operation to elastically deform the constituent material, the latch o...