ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,431, issued on July 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Mobile computing device enclosure with embedded wireless charging module" was invented by Mojan Sohi (Redwood City, Calif.), Veera Venkata Siva Nagesh Polu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Igor Markovsky (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example mobile computing device includes at least one processor, a battery, and a device enclosure. The device enclosure at least partially encloses the mobile computing device. At least one portion of the device enclosure comprises at least one first element, a region that is at least partially formed in and at lea...