US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 15 for "Repelling input device from improper location" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,012, issued on April 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Repelling input device from improper location" was invented by Madeleine Marie Haworth (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system for preventing at least a portion of an input device from attaching to an improper location on a computing device is disclosed. In one example, the input device comprises first and second input device magnets spaced by a separation distance and having a first magnetic pole orientation. The computing device comprises a housing with a first side and a first end adjacent to the first side, and first a...