ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,569, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).
"Earpieces" was invented by Allen T. Graff (Sutton, Mass.), Andrew Doyle (Brighton, Mass.), Andrew D. Munro (Northborough, Mass.), Donna Marie Sullivan (Millbury, Mass.), Richard Herr (Watertown, Mass.) and Benjamin Jason Krosner (Bedford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An earpiece includes an electro-acoustic transducer, a housing that encloses the electro-acoustic transducer, and a nozzle. The nozzle is coupled to the housing and is configured to direct acoustic energy from the transducer toward a user's ear canal when the earpiece is worn. The nozzle def...