ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,133, issued on April 15.

"Detachable identification key head" was invented by Haralambos Sferopoulos (Salonika, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for a key, comprising a key blade having a socket that releasably engages a key head. A method includes cutting an original key head from an original key, forming a socket onto a cut end of the key blade, and attaching a key head onto the socket."

The patent was filed on Jan. 16, 2020, under Application No. 17/427,691.

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