ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,120, issued on June 24, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Control of an earphone device" was invented by Arto Juhani Lehtiniemi (Lempaala, Finland), Jussi Artturi Leppanen (Tampere, Finland) and Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate (Tampere, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program for controlling an earphone device is disclosed. The apparatus may comprise means for detecting a condition corresponding to an earphone device becoming disengaged from a user's ear and for operating said earphone device in an adjustment mode based on detecting the condition, wherein, in the adjustment mode...