ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,761, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Remote temperature sensing with enhanced thermal coupling in wearable electronic devices" was invented by Jacky G. Ko (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Han Bi (Santa Clara, Calif.), Saahil Mehra (Brookline, Mass.), Sinan Filiz (San Mateo, Calif.), Xinsheng Chu (Saratoga, Calif.) and Zachary Gaubert (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are electronic devices, including wearable electronic devices, and components and configurations thereof, having one or more temperature sensors separated from the point of contact of the electronic device and an objec...