ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,601,828, issued on April 14, was assigned to HTC Corp. (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

"Wearable device and control method thereof" was invented by Chun-Yih Wu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Ta-Chun Pu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Yen-Liang Kuo (Taoyuan City, Taiwan) and Wei-Chih Chang (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device includes a PCB (Printed Circuit Board), a fan element, a radar module, an IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit), and a processor. The fan element is disposed on the PCB. The radar module is adjacent to the fan element. The radar module detects the rotation state of the fan element, so as to generate a detection...