ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,912, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).
"Wearable audio device placement detection" was invented by Jeremy Kemmerer (Holliston, Mass.), Miriam Israelowitz (Brookline, Mass.) and Joseph H. Cattell (Somerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An earbud with an electro-acoustic transducer for producing sound, a proximity sensor that is configured to detect when the earbud is close to a user's skin, an orientation sensor that is configured to detect an orientation of the earbud, and a processor that is configured to estimate, based on the proximity sensor and the orientation sensor, whether the earbud...