US Patent Issued to Snap on Sept. 1 for "Conductive connection through eyewear hinge" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,293, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Conductive connection through eyewear hinge" was invented by Douglas Wayne Moskowitz (Marina Del Rey, Calif.), David G. Fliszar (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Martin Mape (Marina Del Rey, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An eyewear device provides for routing a flexible conductive element or conductor through a hollow interior of a hinge mechanism that connects a temple of the eyewear device to its. The hinge mechanism comprises a pair of hinge pieces that defines a composite conduit through the hinge mechanism, conduit and hence the conductor routed throu...