ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,420, issued on April 7, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).
"Audio device with electrostatic discharge protection" was invented by Donna Marie Sullivan (Millbury, Mass.), Thomas Aquinas Nilsen (Auburn, Mass.), James Joung-Mo Kang (Belmont, Mass.), Scott C. Perzanoski (Dudley, Mass.), Mark McCauley (Boston) and Richmond Andrew Real (Uxbridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include audio devices configured to mitigate electrostatic discharge (ESD) events, or strikes. In certain implementations, an audio device includes: a microphone mounted on a first side of a printed wiring board (PWB); and a...