ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,843, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SLASH B SLASH Co. LTD (South Korea).

"Theme Tok" was invented by Yong Chae Jung (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present inventive concept provides a Theme Tok. The Theme Tok according to the present inventive concept includes: a decoration unit to which a theme decoration is attached; a grip unit configured of multi-stage folding bellows bodies, one side of which is coupled to the decoration unit; a fixing unit coupled to the other side of the grip unit and attached to a backside of a smartphone; an NFC tag embedded in the fixing unit to perform near-field communicati...