ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,481, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to LANTO ELECTRONIC Ltd. (Kunshan, China).
"Headphone and headphone state detection method" was invented by Hsin-Nan Chen (Kunshan, China), Tsung-Pao Hsu (Kunshan, China), Jung-Pin Chien (Kunshan, China), Yao-Chun Tsai (Kunshan, China) and Che-Yung Huang (Kunshan, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headphone and a headphone state detection method are provided. A signal processor receives a sensed signal generated by a sensing unit, and determines a contact state based on the sensed signal. In response to that the contact state is in no contact, the signal processor sequentially sends a plura...