ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,214, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Nuheara IP Pty Ltd (Northbridge, Australia).

"Audio system" was invented by Bonar Dickson (Avalon Beach, Australia), Erik Ostlin (Hamilton Hill, Australia), Pei Chee Yong (Cannington, Australia), Amit Malegaonkar (Yokine, Australia), Peter Mather Combes (Floreat, Australia) and Alan Davis (Riverton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio system has a speaker port defining a speaker port cavity, which has a speaker port outlet communicating acoustically with a user's ear canal. A speaker generates output sound in the speaker port cavity based on a speaker signal received at the speake...