US Patent Issued to Google on Nov. 18 for "Sensor-based tamper detection for mounted electronic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,420, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Sensor-based tamper detection for mounted electronic devices" was invented by Aditya Shailesh Ghadiali (Mountain View, Calif.) and William Alan Saperstein (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device including a mounting device configured to couple to a surface, a head removably coupled to the mounting device and including a housing, a magnet attached to the mounting device, and a sensor disposed within the housing. The sensor detects a magnetic field associated with the magnet when the head is in a first position relative to the m...