US Patent Issued to ACCO Brands on May 27 for "Case for a portable electronic device" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,213, issued on May 27, was assigned to ACCO Brands Corp. (Lake Zurich, Ill.).

"Case for a portable electronic device" was invented by Erica Serna (Livingston, Calif.), Wilson Tse (Burnaby, Canada) and Alex Klinkman (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A case for a portable electronic device includes a cavity defined by a plurality of sidewalls and a rear wall and configured to support the portable electronic device therein, and a kickstand arrangement coupled to the rear wall, the kickstand arrangement comprising a first kickstand rotatable about a first rotational axis between a stowed position and a support position and...