ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,743, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Merry Electronics(Shenzhen) Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Headphone and operation method thereof" was invented by Ming-Hung Tsai (Taichung, Taiwan), Chung-Yi Huang (Taichung, Taiwan) and Po-Yu Hung (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a headphone and an operating method thereof. The headphone includes a headband frame, a speaker module, a detector and a controller. The speaker module is disposed on the headband frame. The detector is disposed in the headband frame and detect stress changes on the headband frame to output a frequency response voltage value. The control...