ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,024, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Electronic devices with skin sensors" was invented by Nicholas P. Allec (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Yuta Kuboyama (San Mateo, Calif.), Xiaoyang Zhang (Singapore), Xi Chen (Millbrae, Calif.), Ryan M. Buck (San Francisco), Praveesh Chandran (Singapore), Yifei Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Tingjun Xu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable electronic device such as an earbud, wristwatch, or other device may be provided with a skin sensor. The skin sensor may use optical measurements to detect the presence of skin adjacent to the electronic device. The s...