ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,330, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Head-mounted electronic device with reliable passthrough video fallback capability" was invented by Michael C Friedman (Nederland, Colo.), Russell L Jones (Westminster, Colo.), Kaushik Raghunath (Pleasanton, Calif.), Venu M Duggineni (San Jose, Calif.), Ranjit Desai (Cupertino, Calif.), Manjunath M Venkatesh (San Fransisco, Calif.), Michael J Rockwell (Palo Alto, Calif.), Arun Kannan (Mountain View, Calif.) and Saul H Weiss (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-mounted device is provided that includes one or more cameras configured to acquire a ...