ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,287, issued on June 16, was assigned to Speculative Product Design LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Deployable support apparatus" was invented by Bryan Hynecek (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A support having a magnetically assisted deployment and retraction mechanism which is designed for use with protective covers for personal electronic devices such as smartphones and tablet computing devices featuring a segmented support structure that deploys from a first channel when a shuttle located in a second channel disposed under the first channel is moved from a first position to a second position. The shuttle contains a fi...