ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,011, issued on May 27, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Case and timepiece" was invented by Yoshiki Nakatsuka (Higashiyamato, Japan) and Takao Matsuda (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A case including a case main body, a first exterior case which is arranged around an outer circumferential portion of the case main body, and a second exterior case which includes an impact receiving portion that is opposed to an inner circumferential portion of at least one of an upper part and a lower part of the first exterior case, and is attached to at least one of the upper part and the lower part of the first exterior case."...