ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,489, issued on March 3, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Monitoring a user of a head-wearable electronic device" was invented by Joel S. Armstrong-Muntner (San Carlos, Calif.), Nicholas P. Allec (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and James E. Stark (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for monitoring a user of a head-wearable electronic device with multiple light-sensing assemblies. For instance, methods and/or related systems or computer readable media programmed to perform the methods, directed to the selection of light sensing assemblies and/or light sensor data based on the detec...