ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,334, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea).

"Wearable device" was invented by Yongbum Jeung (Suwon-si, South Korea), Yongwook Park (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jeock Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wearable devices may include a housing including a first surface facing a first direction and having a speaker nozzle part, and a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction and having at least one microphone hole. A speaker and a microphone are disposed in the housing, the microphone configured to collect an acoustic signal. A partit...