Apple Wins Patent on Long-Delayed AirPods Wireless Charging Case and AirPower

[apolloa]

I’ve cited the patent claim multiple times in this thread. They have patented a very specific way of switching between multiple coils, and so far no one on this thread has accepted my challenge to show that this has been done before.

How is that innovation? Surely it’ll just pull power from the coil it’s sat on.

 

[cmaier]

How is that innovation? Surely it’ll just pull power from the coil it’s sat on.

I didn’t say it was innovation. It’s an invention. And actually making it only pull power from coils it sits on is the hard part.

 

[apolloa]

I didn’t say it was innovation. It’s an invention. And actually making it only pull power from coils it sits on is the hard part.

Well I wouldn’t call it an invention either, but whatever. And creating a system that just detects which coil has the biggest pull of power to a device charging from it isn’t what I would class as difficult. Then again Apple managed to patent a shape, apparently.

 

[cmaier]

Well I wouldn’t call it an invention either, but whatever. And creating a system that just detects which coil has the biggest pull of power to a device charging from it isn’t what I would class as difficult. Then again Apple managed to patent a shape, apparently.

You are confusing design patents and utility patents.