US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 7 for "Information handling system speaker magnet to hold housing portions in a closed position" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,578, issued on Oct. 7, 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), Chiu-Jung Tsen (Zhubei, Taiwan) and Shawn Paul Hoss (Georgetown, Texas).

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 detects ...