US Patent Issued to Apple on March 24 for "Band assembly with removable band retainer" (Chinese, Taiwanese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,204, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Band assembly with removable band retainer" was invented by Nicholas S. Brodine (Los Gatos, Calif.), Molly J. Anderson (San Francisco), Clement C. Tissandier (San Francisco), Osamu Yabe (Mountain View, Calif.), Mengxi Zhao (Anlu, China), Timothy S. Lui (San Francisco), Chia Tse Yeh (New Taipei, Taiwan), Kai-Yu Chung (Redwood City, Calif.), Jen-Chun Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan), Tatsuya Sano (San Jose, Calif.) and Peng Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bands for wearable devices include multiple band retainers used to maintain engagement between an ass...