ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,104, issued on July 7, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Automatic sensor orientation calibration" was invented by Thomas Landemaine (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable audio device is provided. The wearable audio device includes a sensor, such as an IMU and a controller. The sensor is configured to capture rotational motion data. At least a portion of the captured rotational motion data corresponds to head motion of a user. The sensor is further configured to generate a sensor orientation of the sensor based on the rotational motion data. The controller is configured to (1) receive the rotationa...