US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Nov. 11 for "In-ear acoustic device with transparency and noise-cancellation" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,858, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"In-ear acoustic device with transparency and noise-cancellation" was invented by Neil Harris (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, methods, and non-transitory, machine-readable media may correspond to in-ear acoustic devices, such as an earbud, with transparency and noise-cancellation. The earbud may include one or a combination of the following. A housing may include a first section and a second section. A speaker may be housed by the housing. A first volume may be partially defined by the speaker and the first section. ...