US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 12 for "Sensing contact force related to user wearing an electronic device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,200, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Sensing contact force related to user wearing an electronic device" was invented by Tyler S. Bushnell (Mountain View, Calif.), Steven J. Martisauskas (San Francisco), Erik G. de Jong (San Francisco), Andrzej T. Baranski (Santa Clara, Calif.), Serhan O. Isikman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Steven J. Banaska (Redwood City, Calif.), Todd K. Whitehurst (Cupertino, Calif.) and Ming L. Sartee (Morro Bay, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable electronic device includes a body, a housing component, a band operable to attach the body to a body part of a user, and a fo...