ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,382,206, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment LLC (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Headset with reciprocating microphone support" was invented by Naoki Ogishita (San Mateo, Calif.) and Sam Schaevitz (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headset has a microphone boom slidably disposed in a sleeve of the headset with a microphone being mounted on the distal end of the boom. The boom is prevented from rotating in the sleeve."

The patent was filed on Oct. 21, 2022, under Application No. 18/048,628.

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