ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,728, issued on March 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Optical components for electronic devices" was invented by Vivek Venugopal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jacky G. Ko (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ueyn L. Block (Menlo Park, Calif.), James R. Wilson (Saratoga, Calif.) and Christopher D. Jones (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture, and an electromagnetic radiation emitter and an electromagnetic radiation detector disposed in the housing. An optical component can be disposed in the aperture and can include a first region of a first material having a fir...