ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,939, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Mobile hearable device" was invented by Pramod Rajan Kesavelu Shekar (Bangalore, India) and Rinze Ida Mechtildis Peter Meijer (Herkenbosch, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mobile hearable device for communicating with a vehicle control system is described. The mobile hearable device includes a microphone, and a wireless transceiver configured as one of a near field magnetic induction (NFMI) transceiver and a near field electromagnetic induction (NFEMI) transceiver. The mobile hearable device includes a processor coupled to the transceiver and t...