ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,390, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Mounting systems for computing device input assemblies" was invented by David William Reber (Cedar Park, Texas), Lawrence Allen Stone (Austin, Texas) and Zichun Song (Cedar Park, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input assembly for a computing device includes: an input device; a mounting body coupled to the input device; a blade member affixed to the mounting body, the blade member configured for insertion into a slot of the computing device, wherein the slot includes a transverse recess; a latch disposed within the blade member, the latch h...