US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 27 for "Keyboard accessory for electronic device" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,337, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Keyboard accessory for electronic device" was invented by Santhana K. Balaji (Campbell, Calif.), Jaime G. Chavez Ruiz Garza (San Francisco), Thais M. Bertolus (San Francisco), Janardhan Mahadev (Santa Clara, Calif.), Feng Wang (Guangzhou, China) and Taylor H. Gilbert (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A modular electronic device system that can include a computing device in electronic communication with an input device. Various types of sensor contained in either or both of the computing device and input device are used to determine orientation an...