ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,244, issued on July 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Head-mounted device with spatially aware camera adjustments" was invented by Luke A Pillans (San Diego), Simon Fortin-Deschenes (San Jose, Calif.) and Christian I Moore (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted device may include one or more sensors for capturing images of a real-world environment and for determining where the head-mounted device is facing in the real-world environment. The sensors can be used to capture images for creating a lighting map that indicates where one or more light sources are located within the environment and...