ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,577, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Headphone audio controller" was invented by Ole Mattis Nielsen (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Headphone audio controllers are disclosed. In one implementation, a headphone includes: an acoustic transducer that is configured to develop sound for delivery to an ear of a user; a microphone that is configured to sense sound from the acoustic transducer and develop an output; and a processor, responsive to the microphone output, and that is configured to: determine first and second audio transfer functions between the acoustic transducer and...