ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,205, issued on March 31, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Exterior member, case and timepiece" was invented by Shouta Nagasawa (Machida, Japan), Hajime Iguchi (Fuchu, Japan) and Shin Hitsumoto (Akishima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exterior member including an exterior main body which covers a whole periphery of a portion of an outer surface of a case main body in a peripheral direction; and fixing projection sections which are formed on predetermined lower edge portions of the exterior main body while projecting toward outer peripheral sides and fix the exterior main body to the case main body by a fixi...