US Patent Issued to Bose on June 17 for "Near-field magnetic inductance communication with in-ear acoustic devices" (California, Illinois, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,690, issued on June 17, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Near-field magnetic inductance communication with in-ear acoustic devices" was invented by Andrew Todd Sabin (Chicago), Crystal P. MacKenzie (San Francisco) and Colin D. Fletcher (Needham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes an in-ear acoustic device that is configured to sit at least partially within a user's ear canal and a head-worn electronic device that is supported on a user's body outside of the user's ear canal. The in-ear acoustic device includes a first receiver and a first coil. The head-worn electronic device includes a second coil...