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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2022
Shopify Inc., Ottawa, CA;
Jonathan Kim, Toronto, CA;
Andrew Ferrier, Montreal, CA;
David Waddell, Nelson, CA;
Michael Joseph Defazio, Fonthill, CA;
Silvana Zaldivar, Toronto, CA;
Shopify Inc., Ottawa, CA;
Abstract
In one aspect, a cable hub includes a housing having a base and a wall. The base has an interior surface and an exterior surface. A plurality of cable ports is disposed in the wall. A mounting magnet is affixed to the interior surface of the base. The mounting magnet has a sufficient pull strength for magnetically mounting the cable hub to a ferromagnetic surface upon placement of the exterior surface of the base against the ferromagnetic surface. The cable hub may be a Universal Serial Bus (USB) hub. In another aspect, a kit includes the cable hub and at least one ferromagnetic plate. The ferromagnetic plate may be affixable to a surface using an adhesive material.