ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,192, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Capacitive in ear detect on earphones" was invented by Karan S. Jain (San Jose, Calif.) and Michael M. Nannini (Dublin, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An earphone comprising: a device housing that defines an internal cavity within the device housing; an acoustic port formed through the device housing and having an opening at an exterior surface of the device housing; an audio driver disposed within the device housing and aligned to emit sound through the acoustic port; a plurality of capacitive pixels disposed within the internal cavity, wherein at least ...