US Patent Issued to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management on Sept. 30 for "Control system, earphone, and control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,485, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).

"Control system, earphone, and control method" was invented by Naoko Okamoto (Fukuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system includes earphones including a housing having a space therein and an air-permeable path from one end of an ear canal of a user to one end of the ambient environment, and an opening and closing valve accommodated in the housing and capable of blocking a part of the path, the earphones being worn on left and right ears of the user, respectively, and a wireless terminal carried by the user....