ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,066, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SHENZHEN SHOKZ Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).
"Open earphones" was invented by Jiang Xu (Shenzhen, China), Haofeng Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Zeying Zheng (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an open earphone comprising: a sound producer including a transducer and a housing accommodating the transducer; and an ear hook, the ear hook including a first portion and a second portion; wherein the ear hook and the sound producer form a first projection on a first plane, the first projection including an outer contour, a first end contour, an inner contour and ...