ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,841, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices with detachable headbands" was invented by Toria F. Yan (San Jose, Calif.), Ryan M. David (San Francisco), Ryan Fernandez (San Francisco), Tingqing Liao (Shenzhen, China), Yunhe Huang (Pleasanton, Calif.), Bingda Liu (Shenzhen, China), Hao Zhu (San Jose, Calif.), Lauren D. Gerardi (Redwood City, Calif.), Benjamin A. Shaffer (San Jose, Calif.), Robert V. Tang (San Francisco), Richard P. Howarth (San Francisco), Nicolas Lylyk (Los Gatos, Calif.), Thomas Richard Routh (Pemberton, Canada), Alex Warburton (Squamish, Canada), Uwe Michael Homm (Squamish, Canada), James Russell Griffin (Squamish, Canada), Mic...