US Patent Issued to Apple on April 7 for "Foldable and rigid docking stations for charging multiple devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,803, issued on April 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Foldable and rigid docking stations for charging multiple devices" was invented by Grant S. Haug (Mountain View, Calif.), Timothy J. Rasmussen (San Jose, Calif.), Demetrios B. Karanikos (San Francisco) and Christopher J. Walton (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless chargers that can properly align and securely hold an electronic device, provide power to more than one electronic device, and fold into a compact shape. One example can provide a wireless charger having an alignment feature to align an electronic device to the wireless charger. T...