ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,272, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic devices with optical modules" was invented by Ivan S. Maric (San Francisco), Forrest C. Wang (Petaluma, Calif.), Jeremy C. Franklin (San Francisco), Phil M. Hobson (Menlo Park, Calif.), Wey-Jiun Lin (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Yoonhoo Jo (Santa Cruz, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted device may have left and right optical modules that present images to a user's eyes. Each optical module may have an optical module support structure and a lens and display coupled to the optical module support structure. The head-mounted device may h...