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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2025
Filed:
May. 30, 2022
Peak Design, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robb Henry Jankura, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Thomas James, San Francisco, CA (US);
Arthur Viger, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jaimee Erickson, San Francisco, CA (US);
PEAK DESIGN, San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
One variation of a mobile tripod includes a device case, including a first set of magnetic elements, and a tripod including: a mounting plate defining a leg receptacle and an aperture; a second set of magnetic elements arranged about the leg receptacle and configured to couple to the first set of magnetic elements to retain the mounting plate against the device case; a set of socket sections coupled to the mounting plate, arranged within the aperture, and defining a socket; a leg assembly configured to seat within the leg receptacle in a retracted position and deploy outward from the exterior face of the device case to mount to a base surface in a deployed position; a spherical end, coupled to the leg assembly, and configured to rotate within the socket, encapsulated by the set of socket sections, to pivot the leg assembly between the retracted position and the deployed position.