ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,609, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Duplicent LLC (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Mobile device accessory" was invented by Curren Emmett Krasnoff (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An accessory case for a mobile device includes a housing, a channel, and an input board. The housing has a base wall and a perimeter wall extending away from the base wall, which together define a cavity to receive a mobile device. The channel is formed within the base wall, and extends inward from but not through the base wall to define a pocket that is separate from the cavity. The input board is received within the pocket. The input boa...