US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 18 for "Watchbands with buckles and woven fabrics" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,182, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Watchbands with buckles and woven fabrics" was invented by Timothy S. Lui (San Francisco), Clement C. Tissandier (San Francisco), Donald L. Olmstead (Aptos, Calif.), Molly J. Anderson (San Francisco), Osamu Yabe (Mountain View, Calif.), Seul Bi Kim (San Mateo, Calif.) and Yoji Hamada (Wakayama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A watchband can comfortably secure an electronic device to a wrist of a user. The watchband can include a base having a contact surface opposite an engagement surface and an engagement ribbon forming loops on the engagement surface of ...