ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,858, issued on March 31, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Protective cap for pressure sensors" was invented by Seow Yuen Yee (Mountain View, Calif.), Ashwin Balasubramanian (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Eric T. Chiang (San Francisco), Michael J. Glickman (Mountain View, Calif.) and Roberto M. Ribeiro (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the subject technology relate to an apparatus having a housing including a port exposed to an environment. A pressure sensor is disposed within the housing to measure a pressure of the environment. A medium partially fills a sensor cavity or is coated over the pressure ...