ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,773, issued on Aug. 19.

"Multi-functional microphone and voice chat device" was invented by Qi Huang (Fuzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-functional microphone and a voice chat device are provided. The microphone includes an earphone amplifier module, a mixing module, a signal processing module, an amplification module, a sound pickup module, a power module, and a control unit. The earphone amplifier module is configured to transmit audio signals from an XBOX game controller, enabling direct connection between earphones and the XBOX game controller via the microphone. The microphone serves as an intermediary interfac...