ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,883, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).
"Earphone modes of operation" was invented by Chulhong Min (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Alessandro Montanari (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: obtaining first sensor data from a first earphone of a pair of earphones; obtaining second sensor data from a second earphone of the pair of earphones; operating in a first mode in the event that the pair of earphones is determined to be worn or used by a single user; and operating in a second mode in the event that the pair...