US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 26 for "Portable electronic device having an integrated bio-sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,677, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Portable electronic device having an integrated bio-sensor" was invented by Qiliang Xu (Livermore, Calif.) and Richard G. Huizar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a translucent layer that forms a portion of an exterior of the electronic device, an opaque material positioned on the translucent layer that defines micro-perforations, and a processing unit operable to determine information about a user via the translucent layer. The processing unit may be operable to determine the information by transmitting optical ener...