Patent ID: 7324333

Claim:
A locking assembly for a notebook computer or other personal electronic device, comprising: a locking base secured to a working surface, said locking base locking a personal electronic device; a movable locking member movable from an open, unlocked position to a locking position protruding through the housing of the personal electronic device and exiting therefrom; a user operable lock locking said locking member in a locked position with said locking base; said locking base being a clamp having a distal end wrapping over an edge of a work surface upon which said notebook computer or other personal electronic device is used; said clamp further including a locking pin movable upward into a locking position against an underside of said work surface; said locking pin locked in place by a further lock preventing removal of said locking pin away from said underside of said working surface, wherein said clamp further includes a clamp locking member extending through a clearance hole in a short container, a cable being threaded through a transverse hole in said short container, said cable preventing movement of said clamp locking member away from a clamp locking position; said cable having a large distal end being sized to being held up and prevented from movement through said transverse hole of said short container; said transverse hole being provided in a lower portion of said short container accepting said cable therethrough, but being sized to prevent access to said larger end of said cable; said clamp being attached to the notebook computer or other personal electronic device work surface; wherein said cable must be removed before said clamp can be loosened.