Apple halts online sales of its Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2

Apple (AAPL) has officially halted online sales of its Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 in the US due to a patent dispute related to their blood oxygen sensors between the tech giant and medical technology company Masimo (MASI). Apple stopped selling its best-selling smartwatches via its online stores at 3:00 p.m. ET on Thursday. The web pages for both the Series 9 and Ultra 2 list them as currently unavailable with no option to purchase them. In-store sales, as well as delivery and pickup of online orders will stop Dec. 24. In October, the International Trade…