ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,002, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Headset audio" was invented by Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi (Lempaala, Finland), Miikka Tapani Vilermo (Siuro, Finland) and Lasse Juhani Laaksonen (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprising: means for receiving one or more left ear microphone signals; means for receiving one or more right ear microphone signals; means for boosting a left ear sound signal in dependence upon the received one or more right ear microphone signals; means for boosting a right ear sound signal in dependence upon the received one or more left ear microphone...