US Patent Issued to Zebra Technologies on June 17 for "Battery pack retention systems for mobile computing devices" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,691, issued on June 17, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).

"Battery pack retention systems for mobile computing devices" was invented by Zichun Song (Cedar Park, Texas), David William Reber (Cedar Park, Texas), Mark Thomas Fountain (Hitchin, Great Britain) and Lawrence Allen Stone (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device includes: a housing defining a battery chamber; an electrical contact disposed on a wall of the battery chamber; a latch extending into the battery chamber, the latch movable between (i) a first position to retain a battery pack within the battery chamber and engage...