ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,854, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to LIMITEAR LTD. (London).

"Hearing dose recording systems; hearing dose recording headphones" was invented by Richard Glover (London) and Stephen Wheatley (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system including wireless headphones, a computer, and software stored on the computer, the computer configured to communicate wirelessly with the wireless headphones, wherein the wireless headphones are configured to provide audio output, to quantify hearing dose associated with the audio output, and to record the quantified hearing dose on the wireless headphones in a quantified hearing dose record duri...