US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 24 for "Electronic devices with relative humidity sensors" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,534, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic devices with relative humidity sensors" was invented by Fehmi Civitci (Carlsbad, Calif.), David D Dashevsky (San Jose, Calif.), Christopher M Dodson (Denver), Kenneth J Vampola (Los Altos, Calif.), Mark T Winkler (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Dawei Lu (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a housing and relative humidity sensor in the housing. The relative humidity sensor may include an optical layer, a relative humidity-sensitive layer coupled to a surface of the optical layer, a light emitter that emits light in...