ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,683, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Active cooling for head-mounted display" was invented by David J. Dunsmoor (San Jose, Calif.), Jason C. Sauers (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sivesh Selvakumar (San Francisco) and Trevor J. Ness (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted display configured to be worn on a face includes a housing, a facial interface coupled to a rear portion of the housing and configured to engage with the face, a component chamber defined in the housing, and a fan located in the component chamber and configured to create air flow from the face through the facial i...