ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,136, issued on June 10, was assigned to EVOLUTIVE LABS Co. LTD. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Connectors and protective case of a hand-held device having same" was invented by Pei-Chun Hou (Taipei, Taiwan) and Po-Wen Hsiao (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a connector for connecting a protective case of a hand-held device and a lanyard. The protective case comprises a frame with a slot formed on the frame. The connector has a fastening portion and a lanyard ring. The fastening portion is placed in the slot, and the lanyard ring extending from the fastening portion reveals out of the slot for the lanyard to ...