US Patent Issued to Apple on Dec. 16 for "Fabric-covered electronic device with light-emitting components" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,194, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Fabric-covered electronic device with light-emitting components" was invented by Yu P Sun (Yorba Linda, Calif.), Caijie Yan (Shanghai), Jared M Kole (San Jose, Calif.), Jia Chen Pang (San Jose, Calif.), Jun Qi (San Jose, Calif.), Ka Ho P Poon (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lindsay M Epstein (San Francisco), Pulkit Verma (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Rong Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Syed F Mohiuddin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Victor H Yin (Cupertino, Calif.) and Zhongnan Hu (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device such as a voice-controlled speaker device...