US Patent Issued to SNAP on Oct. 28 for "Circuits and methods for wearable device charging and wired control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,874, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to SNAP INC. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Circuits and methods for wearable device charging and wired control" was invented by Russell Douglas Patton (Playa Vista, Calif.), Jonathan M Rodriguez II (Los Angeles) and Stephen Andrew Steger (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for wired charging and communication with a wearable device are described. In one embodiment, a symmetrical contact interface comprises a first contact pad and a second contact pad, and particular wired circuitry is coupled to the first and second contact pad to enable charging as well as receive and trans...