ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,453, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Pioneer Square Brands Inc. (High Point, N.C.).

"Portable electronic device case modular port system" was invented by Soren Sibbesen (Jamestown, N.C.), Brian Lewis Piper (Seattle), Quentin Wade Forbes (Winston Salem, N.C.) and Richard Kennedy (Antioch, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A case system for a portable electronic device having an electrical port includes (I) a modular port assembly including (A) a front including at least one electrical port, (B) an electrical plug removably electrically couplable with the electrical port of the portable electronic device; and (II) a case assembly...