ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,871, issued on July 1, was assigned to Philip Morris Products S.A. (Neuchatel, Switzerland).
"Charger door cover with extended features" was invented by Matteo Bologna (Lausanne, Switzerland), Ricardo Cali (Mannheim, Germany), Audrey Cally (Soral, Switzerland), Marc A. F. Van Den Boogaart (Giez, Switzerland), Vincent Ducret (Yverdon, Switzerland) and Christina Evgenia Katsi (Lausanne, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cover for a device-holder portion of a charging case including a coupler and a storage portion. The coupler may be operable to releasably retain the cover to an external wall of the device-holder portion. The ...