ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,027, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Magnetic alignment structures with variable field strength" was invented by Karl Ruben F. Larsson (Los Altos, Calif.), Aaron A. Oro (Palo Alto, Calif.), Timothy J. Rasmussen (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher S. Graham (San Francisco), Eric S. Jol (San Jose, Calif.), James C. Wu (Redwood City, Calif.), Demetrios B. Karanikos (San Francisco), Miranda L Daly (Mountain View, Calif.) and Paul J. Thompson (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A magnetic alignment system can include a primary annular magnetic alignment component and a secondary annular mag...