US Patent Issued to SHENZHEN SHOKZ on March 25 for "Open acoustic device" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,167, issued on March 25, was assigned to SHENZHEN SHOKZ Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Open acoustic device" was invented by Chengqian Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Jinbo Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Le Xiao (Shenzhen, China), Fengyun Liao (Shenzhen, China) and Xin Qi (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An open acoustic device (100) may include a fixing structure (120) configured to fix the acoustic device (100) near an ear of a user without blocking an ear canal of the user; a first microphone array (130) configured to acquire environmental noise (410); a signal processor (140) configured to: determine, based on the environmental ...