ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,827, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Wear detection" was invented by Michael J. Oudenhoven (San Francisco), Brian S. Lau (Sacramento, Calif.) and Jonathan M. Anderson (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted device includes a frame and a sensor coupled to the frame. The sensor includes a first conductive plate coupled to the frame and a first contact pad coupled to the frame and electrically coupled to the first conductive plate. The first contact pad includes an electrically conductive material embedded in a non-electrically conductive material, and the first contact pad is res...