ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,999, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Garmin International Inc. (Olathe, Kan.).
"Aviation headset" was invented by Thaddeus M. Swann (Olathe, Kan.), David M. Barbosa (Olathe, Kan.), Eric D. Miller (Olathe, Kan.) and Tyler H Van Slyke (Olathe, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aviation headset can include a microphone, a port configured to accept a cord for coupling with an audio panel, a transceiver, a speaker, and a processor coupled to the microphone, the port, the transceiver, and the speaker. The processor can be configured to receive an audio signal from the audio panel, determine a relative direction of a headset corresp...