US Patent Issued to Motorola Mobility on May 20 for "Automatically detecting an earpiece mode based on whether a duct is sealed or unsealed" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,541, issued on May 20, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Automatically detecting an earpiece mode based on whether a duct is sealed or unsealed" was invented by Giles Tucker Davis (Downers Grove, Ill.), Robert Murdock (Naperville, Ill.) and Joseph Charles Dwyer (Downers Grove, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An earpiece includes a portion that seals the earpiece in the user's ear, preventing or reducing sounds from an external environment (e.g., the outside world) from entering the user's ear canal and being heard by the user. The earpiece also includes a duct from the user's ear canal to the external environment,...