ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,874, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method of minimizing rusting at a power interface of a wearable computing device" was invented by Hao-Yang Jian (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Szu-Han Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable computing device includes a housing, a band having a circuit, an energy storage device, a power interface configured to deliver electrical power from the energy storage device to the circuit, a switching device configured to selectively couple the energy storage device to the power interface, and a processor. The processor is configured to determine a sta...