US Patent Issued to SNAP on April 21 for "Charging and data access port for a head-wearable apparatus" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,607,864, issued on April 21, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Charging and data access port for a head-wearable apparatus" was invented by Gerald Nilles (Los Angeles), Ugur Olgun (Marina Del Rey, Calif.) and Jordan Wakser (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a head-wearable apparatus for viewing augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) content is provided. An example the apparatus comprises a frame, an optical assembly including an image display in which the AR or VR content may be viewed by a user, and a user input device operable by the user to navigate through content viewed in the ima...