ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,440, issued on April 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for triggering a frame capture in a wearable device" was invented by Brett D. Miller (San Carlos, Calif.), Branko Petljanski (San Jose, Calif.), Kathrin Berkner Cieslicki (Los Altos, Calif.), Noah D. Bedard (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Andrew Kenneth John McMahon (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Frame capture techniques may include obtaining, from at least one sensor, sensor data indicating a motion rate of the system in the environment, receiving a request for the image data of the environment, and selecting, by the controller, ...