ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,718, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Wearable computing device having a charging system for a rechargeable battery" was invented by Piyush Tulsidas Itankar (Bangalore, India), Shantanu Goel (Bangalore, India), Dheeraj Kumar Agrawal (Jaipur, India) and Mahmad Saifuddin Bharmal (Rajkot, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable computing device is provided. The wearable computing device includes a housing and a rechargeable battery disposed within a cavity defined by the housing. The wearable computing device further includes a charging system disposed within the cavity. The charging system...