ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,165, issued on March 25, was assigned to SHENZHEN TONLY SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for detecting wearing state of earphone, earphone, and storage medium" was invented by Liechao Huang (Shenzhen, China), Yucheng Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Guanghui Han (Shenzhen, China), Jinhui Li (Shenzhen, China), Hua Yan (Shenzhen, China) and Xinwen Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for detecting a wearing state of an earphone, an earphone, and a storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a request for detecting the wearing state of ...