US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 27 for "Bone conduction transducers for privacy" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,308, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Bone conduction transducers for privacy" was invented by Robert D. Silfvast (Belmont, Calif.), Neal D. Evans (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nikolas T. Vitt (Redwood City, Calif.) and Jonathan D. Sheaffer (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for routing audio content through an electronic device that is to be worn by a user. The method obtains a communication and determines whether the communication is private. In response to determining that the communication is private, the method drives a bone conduction transducer of the electronic device with an a...