ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,451, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to APPLE INC. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Touch sensitive input surface" was invented by Darshan R. Kasar (Redwood City, Calif.), Javier Mendez (San Jose, Calif.), Nicholas C. Soldner (Los Altos, Calif.) and Grant H. Mulliken (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one example of the present disclosure, a head-mountable device includes a display, a frame at least partially surrounding the display, a facial interface attached to the frame, a cover disposed around the facial interface, and a touch sensitive surface incorporated into the cover to receive input from a user for the head...