US Patent Issued to Apple on May 26 for "Liquid and connection detection" (California, Indiana, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,514, issued on May 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Liquid and connection detection" was invented by Eric B. Wankoff (San Francisco), Peter J. Cameron (Scotts Valley, Calif.), Mahmoud R. Amini (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daren L. Rimando (Milpitas, Calif.), Sotirios Lyrintzis (Fishers, Ind.), Makiko K. Brzezinski (Santa Clara, Calif.), Adam H. Herzog (Los Altos, Calif.), Mohammed Nasser Khamis Al Jashmi (San Jose, Calif.), George Tziviskos (San Jose, Calif.), Aaron N. Miletich (Lodi, Calif.), Collin Greene (San Francisco), Jason S. Sloey (Cedar Park, Texas) and Sydney Puckett (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "...