ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,592, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Image capture to provide advanced features for configuration of a wearable device" was invented by Reed E. Olsen (San Jose, Calif.), Andreas E. Schobel (San Francisco) and Tyler D. Hawkins (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a method for providing enhanced configuration features includes receiving, by a computing device, indication that a wearable device has started a pairing process with a second electronic device and obtaining images corresponding to the wearable device. Moreover, the method includes analyzing, by the computing d...