US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 11 for "Information handling system speaker magnet to hold housing portions in a closed position" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,354, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system speaker magnet to hold housing portions in a closed position" was invented by Jace W. Files (Round Rock, Texas), John Trevor Morrison (Round Rock, Texas), Shawn Paul Hoss (Georgetown, Texas) and Chiu-Jung Tsen (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable information handling system housing biases to the closed position by attracting a piece of ferromagnetic material disposed in a lid housing portion to a magnet in a speaker disposed in a main housing portion. A Hall sensor proximate the ferromagnetic material detect...