ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,234, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Speaker and microphone for acoustic devices" was invented by Scott C. Grinker (Belmont, Calif.), Ali N. Ergun (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anthony D. Minervini (Gilroy, Calif.), Claudio Notarangelo (San Francisco) and Matthew A. Donarski (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the subject technology provide for a microphone in the front volume of a speaker. The speaker and the microphone may be provided in a single speaker assembly. The microphone may be implemented as an error microphone or a feedback microphone. The microphone may be mounted to ...