US Patent Issued to Apple on June 17 for "Headphone eartips with internal support components for outer eartip bodies" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,675, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Headphone eartips with internal support components for outer eartip bodies" was invented by Ethan L. Huwe (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Brad G. Boozer (Saratoga, Calif.), Erik L. Wang (Redwood City, Calif.) and Phillip Qian (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Headphone eartips with internal support components and methods for making the same are provided. Different support components may provide specific amounts and types of additional rigidity at specific portions of an exterior surface of an outer eartip body that may be expected to interface with specific ...