ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,111, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Wearable audio device with feedback instability control" was invented by Benjamin Jason Krosner (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects include approaches for feedback instability control in wearable audio devices. In certain cases, a method of controlling feedback instability in a wearable audio device with an active noise reduction (ANR) system includes: determining a current feedback instability by combining outputs from multiple instability detectors, applying latch logic to the current feedback instability to determine a current mitigation va...