Apple Granted Patent For Inductive Charging Dock

Apple’s looking at a future where all our iOS devices are fully untethered. While the company did take some steps towards a wireless future in the form of Wi-Fi syncing and iCloud, iOS devices still have to be plugged in either to a power plug or to a USB port to be charged.
If Apple’s patents are any indication, the charging process would, in the future, become wireless. The company was granted a patent for an inductive charging dock titled “Antenna insert.”
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