By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Electronics Newsweekly — From Washington, D.C., VerticalNews journalists report that a patent application by the inventors LOZANO, Cesar (Santa Clara, CA); Dolci, Dominic E. (Berkeley, CA); Goh, Chiew-Siang (San Jose, CA), filed on January 30, 2013, was made available online on August 7, 2014.
The patent’s assignee is Apple Inc.
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “The described embodiments relate generally to a multipurpose fastener. More specifically, a fastener configured to both mechanically and electrically couple two circuit boards together is disclosed.(…)
via Researchers Submit Patent Application, “Multipurpose Fastener for Electronic Devices”, for Approval.