ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,157, issued on June 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Band identifier system for wearable devices" was invented by Daniel J. Hiemstra (San Jose, Calif.), Tengxing Wang (Foster City, Calif.), Erik G. De Jong (San Francisco), Zaki Moustafa (Palo Alto, Calif.), Xinping Zeng (San Jose, Calif.), Vincent Chauvin (San Francisco) and Osamu Yabe (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wearable electronic devices, such as smart watches, can be provided with a band for securing the device to a wearer. The device and the band can include near-field communications (NFC) components that allow the device to uniquely...