Patent ID: 8690211

Claim:
An apparatus for securely holding a personal tablet-shaped device in a user's hand, said personal tablet-shaped device having a substantially planar portion on its back surface, comprising: a back-panel coupling member configured for attachment to a substantially planar back surface on a personal tablet-shaped device; and at least one finger-grip member configured for detachable coupling to said back-panel coupling member, wherein: said at least one finger-grip member has a substrate adapted to detachably couple to said back-panel coupling member, said at least one finger-grip member is comprised of multiple finger-receiving apertures made of a pliable and elastic material, and said finger-receiving apertures are formed by the intermittent secure attachment of portions of said pliable and elastic material to said substrate adapted to detachably couple to said back-panel coupling member, on the side of the substrate opposite of the back-panel-coupling interface of said substrate, said intermittent secure attachment of said pliable and elastic material substantially forming a sinusoidal pattern and adapted to distribute the stress of inserted user fingers along said substrate adapted to detachably couple to said back-panel coupling member, each of said finger-grip member's set of finger-receiving apertures is oriented such that the longitudinal axis of each finger-receiving aperture is substantially parallel to said substantially planar back surface of said personal tablet-shaped device, each of said finger-grip member's set of finger-receiving apertures are generally aligned in parallel with each other, each of said finger-grip member's set of finger-receiving apertures is adapted to snuggly engage one or more user fingers on a user hand, said at least one finger-grip member can be detachably coupled to said back-panel coupling member in a user-specified orientation relative to a substantially planar back surface of said personal tablet-shaped device, and said snuggly engagement of user finger(s) allows a user to securely hold said personal tablet-shaped device without a user having to consciously grip said personal tablet-shaped device.