US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 1 for "Fabric-based earbuds" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,751, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Fabric-based earbuds" was invented by Kathleen A Bergeron (Los Gatos, Calif.), Daniel A Podhajny (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Joseph B Walker (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional weaving system may be used to form customized earbuds for a user. An electronic device with a three-dimensional sensor may be used to capture three-dimensional images of one or both of the user's ears. The three-dimensional ear images may be provided to computing equipment that analyzes the images to determine the dimensions of the ear such as tragus and ant...