US Patent Issued to Apple on Aug. 4 for "Own voice reinforcement using extra-aural speakers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,381, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Own voice reinforcement using extra-aural speakers" was invented by Paul Meade (San Mateo, Calif.), Christopher T. Eubank (Mountain View, Calif.), Neal D. Evans (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Nikolas T. Vitt (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including an audio source device having a first microphone and a first speaker for directing sound into an environment in which the audio source device is located and a wireless audio receiver device having a second microphone and a second speaker for directing sound into a user's ear. The audio source device...