ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,567, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Setup management for ear tip selection fitting process" was invented by Kang Sun (Los Gatos, Calif.), Sriram Hariharan (San Jose, Calif.), Robert D. Watson (Menlo Park, Calif.), Sarang S. Ranade (San Jose, Calif.) and Kevin Durfee (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a programmed processor of an in-ear headphone that is to be worn by a user. The method obtains, over a wireless communication link and via a first wireless connection that uses an accessory profile, a first request, from an audio source device, to start a measurement p...