US Patent Issued to Xerox on July 29 for "Methods and systems for securing a user interface panel of a multi-function device" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,001, issued on July 29, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).

"Methods and systems for securing a user interface panel of a multi-function device" was invented by Srinivasarao Bindana (Kakinada, India) and Prasanth Kalaiselvan (Mayiladu, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a method and a system for securing a user interface (UI) panel of a multi-function device. The method includes activating a retraction assembly, based on one or more retraction triggering conditions. Once the retraction assembly is activated, multiple components of the retraction assembly start functioning. At first, the UI...