ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,157, issued on July 1, was assigned to EM Microelectronic-Marin SA (Marin, Switzerland).

"Wearable device strap with watertight actionable part" was invented by Fabien Malacarne (Neuchatel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device (1) including a case (2a, 2b) including a watertight compartment (26) containing a printed circuit board (5), the case (2a, 2b) being assembled to a strap (4a, 4b) for mounting this wearable device (1) on a body part of a user, said assembly of the case (2a, 2b) with the strap (4a, 4b) being configured so that a portion (7) of this strap (4a, 4b) includes at least one actionable part of t...