ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,511, issued on March 25, was assigned to Voyetra Turtle Beach Inc. (White Plains, N.Y.).
"Hearing device with age detection" was invented by Richard Kulavik (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael A. Jessup (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A gaming headset receives a plurality of audio channels during play of a particular game, determines an identity and/or an age of a gamer that is wearing the gaming headset, and configures operation of the gaming headset based on the determined identity and/or age of the gamer. The gaming headset logs into the particular game using credentials associated with the determined identity and/or ...