Patent ID: 8884170

Claim:
A handheld electronic luggage scale comprising: a handle; a luggage hook attachment that is centrally located on a bottom surface of the handle, the luggage hook attachment protruding from the bottom surface of the handle in a downward direction, wherein the luggage hook attachment is funnel-shaped and tapers so that a radius of the luggage hook attachment is greater in the vicinity of the interconnection of the luggage hook attachment with the bottom surface and smaller in the vicinity of a bottom tip of the luggage hook attachment, and wherein the handle is symmetrically shaped to allow a user to grasp the handle to either or both sides of the luggage hook attachment; a connector housed within the luggage hook attachment with an opening at one end, wherein the one end of the connector is spaced apart from the bottom surface of the handle by the luggage hook attachment so that the user's fingers grasping the handle do not contact the one end of the connector; a curved hook having a diameter sized to be accepted by the opening of the connector such that the curved hook is supported by the connector and extends generally vertically below the handle; and an electronic scale housed within the handle, the electronic scale interconnected with the curved hook via the connector for calculating a weight of an object suspended from the curved hook, wherein a touch screen display is provided on a surface of the handle, the touch screen display being configured to display (1) the calculated weight from the electronic scale component, and (2) an icon representing a virtual control button, the virtual control button being configured to adjust a user-selectable setting when the user touches the icon representing the virtual control button for a predetermined period of time.