ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,506, issued on June 17, was assigned to MERRY ELECTRONICS (SHENZHEN) Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).
"Wearable device and earbud" was invented by Hung-Yuan Li (Taichung, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device includes a main body, a detection module and a controller. The detection module is located on the main body and includes an upper casing, an opposite lower casing and a proximity sensor. The lower casing has an elastic material. The proximity sensor is located on the upper casing to measure a distance from the proximity sensor to the elastic material. The controller is electrically connected to the detection module...