ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,839, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Method to reduce H-field coupling for E-noise and a kind of non-coaxial integrated earbuds" was invented by Shengyin Ding (Cupertino, Calif.), Gemin Li (Pleasanton, Calif.), Yao Ding (San Jose, Calif.), Jianmin Zhang (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Guohua Sun (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for an arrangement of components within a hearable device, such as earbuds, to reduce H field coupling for E noise improvement. A battery is positioned above a magnet and speaker, such that the battery is not coaxially aligned w...