US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "Magnetic ear tip attachment with polarity" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,187, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Magnetic ear tip attachment with polarity" was invented by Geng Luo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Shota Aoyagi (San Francisco), Timothy Emmott Torres (San Francisco), Sarah B. Gysbers (Boulder, Colo.) and Qigen Ji (Fairfield, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An in-ear headphone that includes a device housing that defines an interior cavity; a primary acoustic port formed through the device housing; an acoustic driver disposed within the device housing and aligned to emit sound through the primary acoustic port; a deformable ear tip having a sound channel formed th...