ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,714, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Electronic devices with light-emitting fabrics" was invented by Yi Zou (Cupertino, Calif.), Vedant A Dhandhania (San Jose, Calif.) and Danning Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted device may include a housing with a display that displays images that are viewable from an eye box. A light seal may be coupled the housing and may block outside light from reaching the eye box. The light seal may include a light-emitting fabric. The light-emitting fabric may include light-emitting devices such as light-emitting diodes and/or light gui...