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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2018
Filed:
Apr. 23, 2014
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Ivan Andrew McCracken, Sammamish, WA (US);
Hua Wang, Sammamish, WA (US);
Karsten Aagaard, Monroe, WA (US);
David Otto Whitt, III, Sammamish, WA (US);
Robert James Bingham, Jr., Everett, WA (US);
Ralf Groene, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A cover for a mobile computing device includes two or more hinges so constructed that the hinges are substantially rigid when in-plane and flexible when out-of-plane. The cover includes segments made of a rigid material disposed between the hinges. The cover, when swiveled to the back side of the computing device, forms a contour around an object such as a stylus to secure the object to the back side of the computing device when the object is present. The cover becomes substantially flat and parallel to the back side of the computing device when the object is absent.