ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,183, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to ROBERT BOSCH GMBH (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method for operating headphones and earphones" was invented by Lutz Ehrig (Dresden, Germany), Holger Conrad (Dresden, Germany) and Tilman Koch (Hamburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating headphones, in particular in-ear headphones. The method includes receiving measurement data from a pressure-measuring device of the headphones; ascertaining a pressure difference between the first pressure and the second pressure based on the measurement data of the pressure-measuring device; recognizing that the headphones are inserted into t...