ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,176, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Thermal architecture for smart glasses" was invented by Andrea Ashwood (Culver City, Calif.), Gerald Nilles (Culver City, Calif.), Patrick Timothy Mcsweeney Simons (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Stephen Andrew Steger (Los Angeles) and Choonshin You (Irvine, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of dissipating heat generated by imaging devices and processing devices of a wearable electronic eyewear device includes providing a first heat sink thermally connecting the imaging devices to a frame of the eyewear device to sink heat to the frame and providing a se...