ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,309, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Pioneer Square Brands Inc. (High Point, N.C.).

"Case with keyboard for portable electronic device" was invented by Brian Lewis Piper (Seattle) and Sudeep Balkrishna Agalgaonkar (Jamestown, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are involved with (I) a case assembly including a first side including at least one distal wall portion, and at least one proximal wall portion, and a second side including at least one distal wall portion, and at least one proximal wall portion; and (II) a keyboard assembly including a first side removably couplable to the at least one distal wall porti...