ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,324, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Panel cleaning system" was invented by Devinne Cullinane (San Francisco), Edward S. Huo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jeremy C. Franklin (San Francisco) and Paul X. Wang (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted device includes an external facing sensor configured to generate a signal corresponding to a characteristic of an external environment. A controller is configured to determine that a quality of the signal is below a threshold value and take an action in response. Another embodiment includes a case for storing a head-mounted device that incl...