US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 20 for "Head-mountable device with adaptable fit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,138, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Head-mountable device with adaptable fit" was invented by Yoonhoo Jo (Santa Cruz, Calif.) and Scott M. Leinweber (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mountable device can include adaptable components, which move to comfortably engage the face of the user and to exclude light from an external environment. A head-mountable device can include a light seal element that includes discrete portions that rotate relative to each other and to a user. Such mobility allows the portions to be oriented with respect to corresponding regions of the face, so ...