ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,194, issued on Oct. 7, 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: "A set of headphones and audio system comprises a first set of buttons for controlling a volume level of transmitted audio to the headphones and a second set of buttons for controlling a volume level of external audio played by the headphones. The transmitted audio comprises audio received from an audio source such as an electronic device and the external audio comprises surrounding ambient noise received by a microphone coupled to the headphones. With the first s...