ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,415, issued on June 24, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Wireless peripheral docks and sensors" was invented by Chung-Chun Chen (Taipei, Taiwan), Ming-Shien Tsai (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Ming Huang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, an electronic device is described. An example electronic device includes a charging dock to charge a wireless peripheral device and a sensor to determine when the wireless peripheral device is decoupled from the charging dock. A wireless communication device of the example electronic device wirelessl...