US Patent Issued to NUHEARA IP on Oct. 20 for "Ear tip connected to ear bud body inner portion configured to provide acoustic impedance through tip vent" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,983, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to NUHEARA IP PTY LTD (Australia).

"Ear tip connected to ear bud body inner portion configured to provide acoustic impedance through tip vent" was invented by Erik Ostlin (Hamilton Hill, Australia), Aaron Brodie (High Wycombe, Australia) and Alan Davis (Riverton, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ear tip has an inner part connectable to an ear bud body of an earbud, and an outer part disposed at least partially over the inner part. The outer part is flexible and is for coupling the ear tip to a user's ear canal. The inner part includes an inwardly facing wall and an outwardly facing wall...