ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,163, issued on May 6, was assigned to Universal Electronics Inc. (Scottsdale, Ariz.).

"Wearable, configurable personal electronic device" was invented by Eric Wang (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configurable, wearable electronic device is shown and described. The configurable, wearable electronic device may be configured to be worn around a user's neck via a lanyard and a special longitudinal insert of the configurable having an attached tether, worn on a user's clothing via a conforming cradle assembly or worn on a user's wrist by removing one or more longitudinal inserts of the configurable, wearable electronic de...