US Patent Issued to Google on Jan. 13 for "Blind battery connector" (Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,525,692, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Blind battery connector" was invented by James Robert Lim (Mountain View, Calif.), Pinci Liao (Taichung, Taiwan), Chih-Min Chien (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chien-Yueh Tung (Zhubei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present document describes techniques associated with a blind battery connector. The blind battery connector described herein enables a user to blindly engage, safely and securely, a battery connector with a system-side connector. In aspects, the blind battery connector includes polarity-oriented magnets at both the battery connector and the sys...