US Patent Issued to Auto Ears on Dec. 16 for "Headphone apparatus and methods for configuration-based power switching" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,197, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Auto Ears LLC (Seattle).

"Headphone apparatus and methods for configuration-based power switching" was invented by Logan Andrew Warren (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electronic headphones that are operational when worn or placed on the head of a wearer and are non-operational when the electronic headphones are not worn. In exemplary embodiments, one or more sensors in the electronic headphones may detect this change of position of the earcups/pivot arms of the headset which indicates the wearer is no longer wearing the electronic headphones and put the electronic headphones in a non-op...