ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,561, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Ring device" was invented by Stefan Hafeneger (Saratoga, Calif.), Amrith V Ram (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Joel N Ruscher (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A ring device may be worn on a user's finger. The ring device may include near-field communications circuitry for emulating near-field communications tags based on biometric data and/or for logging health-related actions such as medicine intake. An inertial measurement unit in the ring device may detect pointing and other gestures for controlling equipment. A microphone may detect voice input and ot...