US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Force counterbalance system and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,326, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Force counterbalance system and method" was invented by Matin Seadat Beheshti (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Amin Farzaneh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A counterbalance for an object and a method of counterbalancing a force are disclosed. In an example, a head-mountable device (HMD) includes a housing, an optical module coupled to the housing, and an energy storage device coupled to the optical module. The energy storage device can apply a force to the optical module. A profile of the force can vary non-linearly as a position of the optical module r...