ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,544, issued on June 10, was assigned to FIRST WEST GMBH (Vienna).
"Adapter for an earphone" was invented by Jerzy Franciszek Kucharko (Vienna).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adapter, which can be releasably connected to an earphone and assists in the fastening of the earphone to a human ear, without impairing the sound output of the earphone. In order to fasten the adapter to the earphone, a shell-type part of the adapter encompasses a volume region of the earphone, the shell-type part being in planar contact with the earphone under pressure, the compressive force being caused predominantly by elastic bending deformation of the she...