ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,793, issued on July 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Electronic devices with edge illuminators" was invented by Benjamin Guild (San Francisco), Ryan D Shelby (Mountain View, Calif.), Benjamin J Grena (San Francisco), David M Kindlon (Felton, Calif.), Kathryn P Crews (Menlo Park, Calif.), Storrs T Hoen (Brisbane, Calif.) and Yue Chen (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device such as a wrist band may include a strip of fabric that wraps around a longitudinal axis. A one-dimensional array of light sources may be embedded in the strip of fabric and may emit light parallel to the longitudina...