ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,041, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. Ltd. (Spring, Texas).
"Device contact surfaces" was invented by Kenneth Maclean (Spring, Texas), Chad Patrick Paris (Spring, Texas), Woojin Chung (Spring, Texas), Stacy L Wolff (Spring, Texas), Eric Chen (Spring, Texas), Oliver Poyntz (London), Marcus Hoggarth (London) and Benjamin Carroll (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example system includes a peripheral device including a first contact surface, and an electronic device including a housing, a second contact surface aligned with a surface of the housing, and a hinge coupled to the second contact surfa...