US Patent Issued to Andis on June 16 for "Magnetic positioning for inductively charging a hand-held, hair clipper on a charging pad" (Wisconsin Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,658,741, issued on June 16, was assigned to Andis Co. (Sturtevant, Wis.).

"Magnetic positioning for inductively charging a hand-held, hair clipper on a charging pad" was invented by Nicholas David Gross (Burlington, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various designs of a system for charging a hand-held, hair cutting device are shown. The system includes a hair cutting device and a charging station. The hair cutting device and charging station each include an inductive charging coil. At least one of the hair cutting device and charging station include a magnet to pull or bias the hair cutting device such that the respective inductive cha...