US Patent Issued to Apple on May 20 for "Rejection of false turns of rotary inputs for electronic devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,047, issued on May 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Rejection of false turns of rotary inputs for electronic devices" was invented by Anna-Katrina Shedletsky (Mountain View, Calif.), Christopher M. Werner (San Jose, Calif.), Colin M. Ely (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Samuel Weiss (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments for detecting and rejecting false, unintended rotations of rotary inputs of electronic devices are disclosed herein. In one example, an electronic device is provided with an optical detector that measures the distance between the electronic device and the wearer's forearm or ...