MUMBAI, India, Nov. 21 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202515097979 A) filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, U.S.A., on Oct. 10, for 'bimodal magnetic alignment components for alignment of devices.'
Inventor(s) include Rasmussen, Timothy J; Jol, Eric S; Graham, Christopher S; Larsson, Karl Ruben Fredrik; and Zhou, Eric X.
The application for the patent was published on Nov. 21, under issue no. 47/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A bimodal annular magnetic alignment component can be included 5 in an electronic device that attaches to other electronic devices using a magnetic alignment system that includes a primary annular alignment component and a secondary annular alignment component having complementary (and fixed) magnetic orientations. In a bimodal alignment component, a set of alignment magnets can be reoriented or shifted between a first position in which a magnetic 10 orientation of the bimodal alignment component is complementary to a primary annular alignment component and a second position in which a magnetic orientation of the bimodal alignment component is complementary to a secondary annular alignment component. A bimodal electronic device incorporating a bimodal alignment component can be interchangeably attached to another device via either 15 a primary annular alignment component or a secondary annular alignment component."
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