ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,745, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to GN AUDIO A/S (Ballerup, Denmark).
"Wearable electronic device for emitting a masking signal" was invented by Clement Laroche (Ballerup, Denmark) and Rasmus Kongsgaard Olsson (Ballerup, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing method and a wearable electronic device such as a headphone or an earphone comprising a microphone arranged to pick up an acoustic signal and convert the acoustic signal to a microphone signal (x); a loudspeaker arranged in an earpiece; and a processor configured to control the volume of a masking signal (m); and supply the masking signal (m) to the loudspe...