ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,028, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic devices with body composition analysis circuitry" was invented by Gopal Valsan (Gilroy, Calif.), Thilaka S Sumanaweera (San Jose, Calif.), Liliana I Keats (Cupertino, Calif.), David J Feathers (Williamsville, N.Y.) and Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include body composition analysis circuitry that estimates body composition based on captured images of a face, neck, and/or body (e.g., depth map images captured by a depth sensor, visible light and infrared images captured by image ...