Are we still hoping to see a Surface Pen with inductive charging? At Microsoft they continue to work on the idea

Inductive charging in our devices is one of the improvements that has begun to arrive quietly, without making much noise. A novelty that has begun to take over a good part of the mobiles that are launched on the market and that in turn we have even seen reaching the automobile, with vehicles that have a surface designed to charge our mobile.

It is a more convenient and easy-to-use way of charging a device. However it has the problem that it is slower, especially if we compare it with the fast charging methods that we see today in mobile phones and tablets.This handicap, however, does not make the different manufacturers interested in this system, especially since depending on the device to be loaded, it can be more than interesting. That's what Microsoft would think: a Surface Pen with wireless charging through the tablet itself.

A peripheral with a small battery that would always be charging when we stopped using it and placed it in our tablet or convertible In fact they began to work on this charging system and filed a patent to be able to develop it. However, almost a year has passed and we have not heard anything else. Has Microsoft abandoned this project?

For now we know that both Shiu Ng, Senior Hardware Engineer at Microsoft Surface, and Tim Jakoboski, Director of Hardware Engineering at Microsoft, have updated the patent so that atimprove and optimize the design and shape of the charging system can integrate it into different parts of a tablet.In this way the Suface Pen could be loaded from the screen itself or on the side next to the keyboard.

A change that would also be extended to the form of fastening for the load and is that if until now the use of magnets was thought to hold the device while it is being recharge, now they seem to have opted for a more practical solution although it must be said, less elegant. And it is that the area for charging would have a hole, a space adapted for the Surface Pen in which to place it without moving.

For now this work remains just that, a patent, and we don't know if it will become a reality on new equipment or if on the contrary It will end up in the memory drawer. And it must be noted that even if a patent is filed, it does not always mean that it will materialize in a new product, since many times these are more due to limiting the field of innovation of the competition.

Source | MSPowerUser