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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Shravan Bharadwaj, San Jose, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
This application relates to a case for a portable electronic device. The case includes a housing having walls that define a cavity, where the walls are capable of carrying the portable electronic device within the cavity. The walls carry operational components that include a processor capable of providing instructions, a magnetic circuit capable of generating a magnetic field in response to receiving the instructions from the processor, and a magnetosensitive layer that includes (i) a matrix, and (ii) magnetic particles interspersed within the matrix according to a first distribution, where when the magnetosensitive layer is exposed to the magnetic field, the magnetic particles are rearranged according to a second distribution.