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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2024
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2021
Multiply Labs Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Federico Parietti, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kameron C. Chan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alice Melocchi, Dalmine, IT;
Jeffrey Ackerman Curhan, Warwick, RI (US);
Michelle Chen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nolan Dickey, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joaquin Giraldo-Laguna, San Francisco, CA (US);
Roger Lo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lawrence Zachary Bright, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Sam Ihns, Cambridge, MA (US);
Umberto Scarfogliero, San Francisco, CA (US);
Multiply Labs Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
A docking device for receiving a portable device. The docking device includes a base including a substantially planar upper surface for supporting a portable device. The docking device includes an array of a plurality of engagement members. Each engagement member in the plurality of engagement members includes a fixed body protruding upwardly from the substantially planar upper surface of the base. Each engagement member includes a spring including a fixed end portion and a free end portion for engagement with the portable device. The fixed end portion interfaces with the fixed body. The free end portion protrudes from the fixed end portion obliquely towards the substantially planar upper surface of the base. The free end being movable along a deformable gap between a first surface of the fixed body and a second surface of the spring.