US Patent Issued to Intel on June 9 for "Self-orientating privacy cover" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,711, issued on June 9, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Self-orientating privacy cover" was invented by Aleksander Magi (Portland, Ore.) and Mark E. Sprenger (Tigard, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A privacy cover that includes a main body and a privacy cover orientation magnet. The privacy cover orientation magnet includes a plurality of positively biased areas and a plurality of negatively biased areas arranged in a specific orientation that allows the plurality of positively biased areas and the plurality of negatively biased areas in the privacy cover orientation magnet interact with a plurality of positive...