ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,307, issued on June 24, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).
"Universal mobile device mount" was invented by Andrew Ferrier (Montreal), Colin Roberts (Ottawa), Michael Joseph Defazio (Fonthill, Canada), Silvana Zaldivar (Toronto), Jonathan Kim (Toronto) and David Waddell (Nelson, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A universal mobile computing device mount comprises a body, a clamp arm, and an insertable electrical connector. The clamp arm is extendible from, and resiliently biased towards, the body, and is configured to engage an edge surface of a mobile computing device. The insertable electrical connector is pivotably mounted ...