ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,314, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"User identification using headphones" was invented by Jun Gong (Issaquah, Wash.) and Gierad Laput (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and processes for user identification using headphones associated with a first device are provided. For example, first movement information corresponding to movement of a second electronic device is detected. Second movement information corresponding to movement of a third electronic device is detected. A similarity score is determined based on the first movement information and the second movement information. In acc...