US 11,722,166 B2
Mobile device case system
Joseph Cunningham, San Francisco, CA (US); Kiran Malladi, San Francisco, CA (US); Peter Dering, San Francisco, CA (US); Matthew Thomas James, San Francisco, CA (US); Arthur Viger, San Francisco, CA (US); and Jaimee Erickson, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to PEAK DESIGN, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Peak Design, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 15, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/503,200.
Application 17/503,200 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/071,961, filed on Oct. 15, 2020, granted, now 11,211,963.
Prior Publication US 2022/0158677 A1, May 19, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04B 1/3888 (2015.01); H04M 1/04 (2006.01); H04M 1/02 (2006.01)
CPC H04B 1/3888 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device case comprising:
a body:
defining a cavity configured to accept and retain a mobile device against an inner face of the body;
defining a strap receptacle; and
comprising a first magnet arranged adjacent the strap receptacle; and
a strap:
flexibly coupled to the body;
configured to seat within the strap receptacle in a retracted position;
configured to extend outward from an exterior face of the body opposite the inner face to accept a finger of a user in a deployed position; and
comprising:
a structural element configured to bias the strap into a planar orientation within the strap receptacle in the retracted position;
a second magnet embedded in the structural element and configured to transiently couple to the first magnet of the body to retain the strap within the strap receptacle in the retracted position; and
a strap liner encompassing the structural element.