ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,399, issued on April 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Cases for electronic devices" was invented by Bryan A Cloyd (San Francisco), Mary S Poletti (Woodside, Calif.), Nicholas R Trincia (San Francisco), Benjamin A Stevenson (Oakland, Calif.), Tsung-Wen Su (Tainan, Taiwan), Jack Pickup (Shenzhen, China) and Jessica Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A case for an electronic device such as a head-mounted device may have a main housing portion that separates an interior region from a surrounding exterior region. The main housing portion may have an opening through which the head-mounted device is ...