ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,646, issued on June 16, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Earbud-to-earbud communication relay" was invented by Sunil Kumar (Cupertino, Calif.) and Daniel Barros (Sra da Hora, Portugal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various arrangements of wireless earbuds are presented. A first earbud, can include a first speaker, a first processing system, and a first wireless communication interface, that communicates with an audio source device using Bluetooth communications. A second earbud can include a second speaker, a second processing system, and a second wireless communication interface, that communicates with the audio ...