ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,178, issued on June 24, was assigned to PixArt Imaging Inc. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
"Mechanism for assembling force sensor patch into earphone device" was invented by Chih-Ming Sun (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Yen-Po Chen (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An earphone device includes a housing subassembly, an inner casing subassembly, an audio processor, and a force sensor patch. The inner casing subassembly is disposed in the housing subassembly and integrated with a printed circuit board having specific electrode(s). The audio processor is disposed on the printed circuit board. The force sensor patch is pasted onto specific ele...