ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,882, issued on July 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Electronic devices with rearward-facing sensors" was invented by Michael J. Oudenhoven (San Francisco), Brian S Lau (Sacramento, Calif.), Cameron A Harder (San Francisco), Depeng Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Vikrant Bhakta (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted device may have a housing with a frame that supports lenses. Each lens may have a positive bias lens element and a negative bias lens element. A waveguide may overlap the lens. During operation, images from the waveguide may be provided to an eye box through the negative bias lens...