US Patent Issued to Apple on June 10 for "Magnetic alignment assembly for inductive charging systems" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,681, issued on June 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Magnetic alignment assembly for inductive charging systems" was invented by Brennan K. Vanden Hoek (Bear Valley, Calif.), Makiko Kawamura Brzezinski (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Miranda L. Daly (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic alignment assembly can be incorporated into an electronic device to facilitate alignment with another device. The magnetic alignment assembly can include a main magnet (e.g., a square or rectangular magnet) having a magnetic dipole in an axial direction and a ring magnet coaxial with the main magnet. The ring m...