ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,132, issued on July 8, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).
"Open-ear headphone" was invented by Joel Miller (Westborough, Mass.) and Todd Reily (North Reading, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An open-ear headphone includes an acoustic module, a battery housing, and a body coupled to the acoustic module. The acoustic module includes a portion that is configured to sit in a cavum conchae of an outer ear of a user, an acoustic transducer, and a first sound-emitting opening that is configured to emit sound produced by the acoustic transducer. The battery housing is configured to be located behind the outer ear and contain...