ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,731, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for headband gesture sensing with analog pressure sensor for a wireless headset device" was invented by Kai Leong Wong (Singapore), Wong Hin Loong Justin (Singapore) and Manish Krishnaji Desai (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wireless headset includes a microcontroller and a first earpiece and a second earpiece to provide audio output to a user. The wireless headset includes a flexible headband coupled to the first earpiece and second earpiece and a headband profile state sensor. The headband profile state sensor detects whe...