ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,278, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Snik LLC (Berkeley, Calif.).
"Magnetic earphones holder" was invented by Rob Honeycutt (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more sensors are configured to contextualize a series of user generated movements to control one or more electronic devices. For example, a set of earphones comprises one or more sensors for sensing a location of the earphones. The one or more sensors enable earphones such as a pair of bluetooth or earphones wirelessly coupled to a bluetooth enabled electronic device, the capability to understand the configuration of use of the earphones. Based on a locati...