Patent ID: 8661718

Claim:
A method for personalizing luggage, comprising: providing a piece of luggage; securing a fastening member to the piece of luggage, the fastening member extending through a surface of the luggage and including at least one retention feature; coupling a housing to the fastening member, the housing comprising a generally planar surface with a raised border extending around the periphery of the generally planar surface to define a cavity therein; aligning an identification patch with at least one of an engraving apparatus or a stitching apparatus; forming indicia on the identification patch using the engraving or stitching apparatus; and removably coupling the identification patch having the indicia to the housing, wherein the identification patch is disposed within the cavity with a surface of the identification patch coplanar with the raised border; wherein the fastening member is disposed on an interior surface of the luggage; wherein the housing and the identification patch are disposed on an exterior surface of the luggage; and wherein the at least one retention feature comprises a projecting tab having flexibility to give way and deform to allow the housing to detach from the fastening member upon application of less force than would be required to tear the luggage.