US Patent Issued to Bose on Aug. 25 for "Multi-stage body engagement detection" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,249, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Multi-stage body engagement detection" was invented by David Minich (Natick, Mass.), Josue Malaver (Millbury, Mass.), Miriam Israelowitz (Brookline, Mass.), Alexia Delhoume (Framingham, Mass.) and Michelle Gelberger (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect of the disclosure, an audio device is provided comprising a communications interface configured to be communicatively coupled to an audio source, at least one sensor, and a controller configured to control the audio device to be in a low-power mode, receive, from the sensor(s), i...