By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Politics & Government Week — From Washington, D.C., VerticalNews journalists report that a patent application by the inventors DEGNER, Brett W. (Menlo Park, CA); FARAHANI, Houtan R. (San Ramon, CA); HOPKINSON, Ron A. (Campbell, CA); LEGGETT, William F. (San Francisco, CA), filed on November 5, 2013, was made available online on March 27, 2014.
The patent’s assignee is Apple Inc.
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “There are a wide variety of ways to fasten device components together. One common component fastening approach is to use screws, particularly where the ability to disassemble the device components is desirable. This can often mean that the components to be fastened together need to have holes or other features in order to accommodate the screws, (…)
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