ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,680, issued on April 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Computing device case" was invented by Supratik Datta (Saratoga, Calif.), Karan S. Jain (San Jose, Calif.), Ehsan Khajeh (Los Gatos, Calif.), Arash Akhavan Fomani (Saratoga, Calif.), Daniel P Kumar (Fremont, Calif.), Eng Eow Goh (Fremont, Calif.), Meng Chi Lee (Los Altos, Calif.), Gang Ning (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew W. Joyce (San Jose, Calif.), Chengrui Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Stephen T. Schooley (Menlo Park, Calif.), Timothy C. Wulff (Boulder, Colo.), Ross D. Arriens (San Jose, Calif.), Hao Dong (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Michael Sipper (Sandy Spring, Md.), Jenna Dancy (Longmont, Colo.), Deepak Sharma (Santa Cl...