ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,206, issued on June 24, was assigned to Zebra Technologies Corp. (Lincolnshire, Ill.).
"Removable battery pack" was invented by Andrew Ellis (Kitchener, Canada), Xinghua Shi (Milton, Canada) and Mu-Kai Shen (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A battery for a mobile device includes: a battery housing including an inner wall, an opposing outer wall, a rear wall, and an opposing forward wall, the rear and forward walls each joining the inner and outer walls; an electrical contact disposed on the inner wall, configured to engage with an electrical interface within a device housing; a seal on the inner wall surrounding the elec...