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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.
 
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.
 
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