ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,279, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Seattle).
"Systems for determining user-specific ultraviolet light exposure data" was invented by Cyril Arokiaraj Arool Emmanuel (San Jose, Calif.) and Haithem Albadawi (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device detects ambient ultraviolet light and provides output related to lengths of time for safe exposure and health benefits. Orientations of the device, determined by an orientation sensor, intensity of ambient light determined by ultraviolet and visible light sensors, or both are used to determine a current position of the sun or other source ...