ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,327, issued on March 3, was assigned to Skullcandy Inc. (Park City, Utah).

"Portable electronic accessory systems and related devices" was invented by Jeff Hutchings (Lehi, Utah) and Nikolaj Hviid (Stockdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Portable electronic accessories and removable control packages are disclosed. A portable electronic accessory includes a battery configured to provide battery power, a control socket configured to receive a removable control package, and power circuitry configured to deliver at least a portion of the battery power to the removable control package to power the removable control package. The ...