US Patent Issued to Apple on May 12 for "Head-mountable device band with a latch movable by a tab" (California, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,622,493, issued on May 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Head-mountable device band with a latch movable by a tab" was invented by Yiwei Tao (Campbell, Calif.), Aiden D. Mossop (San Francisco), Benjamin A. Shaffer (San Jose, Calif.), Lauren D. Gerardi (Redwood City, Calif.), Nicolas Lylyk (Los Gatos, Calif.), Paul J. Thompson (Mountain View, Calif.), Richard P. Howarth (Lake Forest, Ill.), Robert V. Tang (San Francisco), Toria F. Yan (San Jose, Calif.), Wei-Ling Chang (San Francisco) and Zebinah P. Masse (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A band includes a latch body that is movable by pulling a tab. The ...