“Apple has shown interest in building a new universal power adapter compatible with different DC voltage levels, allowing portable devices like a MacBook Pro, iPhone and iPad to be charged at the same time with just one wall plug,” Neil Hughes reports for AppleInsider.

“The proposed invention was revealed this week in a new Apple patent application filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and discovered by AppleInsider,” Hughes reports. “The filing, entitled “Multi-Output Power Supply,” notes that most commercially available adapters do not include multiple outputs for supplying different DC voltage levels.”

Hughes reports, “The latest application is not the first time Apple has shown interest in redesigning its power adapters to allow charging of multiple devices. In September, another filing showed the company is interested in building a universal charger that would allow portable devices to not only recharge their batteries, but also sync data while plugged in to the same adapter.”

Read more in the full article here.

MacDailyNews Take: Yes, please. We’ll take 10 of them.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader "Brawndo Drinker" for the heads up.]