US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on June 30 for "Computing device and accessory storage systems and methods" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,846, issued on June 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Computing device and accessory storage systems and methods" was invented by Nathan Michael Thome (Kirkland, Wash.), Robyn Rebecca Reed McLaughlin (Seattle), Lynda Anne Horton-Jones (Sammamish, Wash.), Whitney Anne Reed (Seattle) and Kaitlyn Marley Schoeck (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage element for a computing device (304) includes a device sleeve (302) configured to receive a computing device. The device sleeve (302) includes an accessory slot (312) configured to receive a computing accessory (306). When the computing devi...