ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,426,177, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to PEGATRON Corp. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Buffer module and electronic device using the same" was invented by Cun-Hong Deng (Taipei, Taiwan), Ming-Te Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chi-Ming Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A buffer module including a base, a buffer element and an elastic element is provided. The base has a groove. The buffer element includes a spherical body movably disposed in the groove. The elastic element is disposed between a bottom surface of the groove and the spherical body."

The patent was filed on Dec. 8, 2022, under Application No. 18/063,121.

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