US Patent Issued to Bose on Oct. 7 for "Wearable device control module with electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection" (New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,573, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Wearable device control module with electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection" was invented by James Piper Miglietta (Stow, Mass.) and Daniel D. Gonsalves (Hudson, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects include wearable devices with electrostatic discharge (ESD) mitigating features. In some examples, a control module is configured to connect to a wearable device, the control module including: a housing having at least one electrostatic discharge (ESD) ingress location, an electronic component in the housing, and a shield plate contained in the housing ...