ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,879, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SINOX COMPANY LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).
"Security lock" was invented by Chien-Hung Wu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chia-Hung Wang (New Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A security lock has a fixing element and at least one hook. The fixing element is mounted in a security slot of an electronic device. The hook is capable of moving axially with respect to the fixing element, and the hook moves radially outward along a guiding structure of the fixing element to engage with the security slot, the fixing element stays static, i.e., without moving and rotating as the hook is moving. There...