ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,212, issued on July 15, was assigned to POPSOCKET LLC (Boulder, Colo.).
"Magnetic wallet accessory" was invented by Randy Yang Chiang (San Francisco), Lawrence Herman Fong (San Francisco), Michael Kory (San Francisco), David Czarnecki (San Francisco), Vanessa Cantoli-Alves (San Francisco), Andrew Heinrich (San Francisco) and John Roach (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accessory assembly for a mobile electronic device includes a platform, having a first side and an opposing second side. The platform includes one or more magnetic elements configured to magnetically attach the platform to a mobile electronic device or ca...