US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on March 17 for "Active noise cancellation using remote sensing for open-ear headset" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,965, issued on March 17, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Active noise cancellation using remote sensing for open-ear headset" was invented by Nils Thomas Fritiof Lunner (Redmond, Wash.), Morteza Khaleghimeybodi (Bothell, Wash.), Buye Xu (Sammamish, Wash.), Sang-Ik Terry Cho (Kirkland, Wash.), Sebastian Elliot Chafe (Seattle) and Muhammad Zubair Ikram (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An open-ear device performs active noise cancellation (ANC) for a user. A sensor located outside an ear of a user which does not occlude an ear canal of the ear and measures vibrational data indicat...