ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,044, issued on April 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Device case with integrated kickstand docking compatibility" was invented by Nicholas Gillett (San Francisco), Bengt Brummer (San Francisco), Eugene Fox (San Francisco), Carl Cepress (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Maj Isabelle Olsson (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nicholas Sanders (Saratoga, Calif.) and Jose Madrid (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements of an electronic device case are presented herein. The case can include a housing shaped to allow an electronic device to be removably installed within the housing. The case can include magn...