ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,078, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Portable information handling system peripheral camera and dock with contoured wireless charging" was invented by Jace W. Files (Round Rock, Texas), John Trevor Morrison (Round Rock, Texas) and Andrew P. Tosh (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system having a display magnetically couples a peripheral camera to the display with a ferromagnetic material disposed behind the display. A dock couples to the display and has a curved base on which a cylindrical housing of the peripheral camera rests. A wireless charging receive...