US Patent Issued to Snap on Sept. 9 for "Eyewear with direction of sound arrival detection" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,362, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Eyewear with direction of sound arrival detection" was invented by Jennica Pounds (Bellevue, Wash.), Daniel Harris (San Francisco) and Ashwani Arya (Cypress, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Eyewear providing a visual indicator to a hearing-impaired user indicating a direction of arrival of a sound relative to the eyewear to help the user obtain greater awareness of the surrounding environment. An eyewear optical assembly includes an image display displaying the visual indicator discernable by the user and corresponding to the direction of arrival of the...