ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,735, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SONICEDGE LTD. (Shoham, Israel) and JACOB JENSEN DESIGN A/S (Hoejslev, Denmark).

"Earphone system" was invented by Jakob Kjaer Nielsen (Logstrup, Denmark), Luca Brazzale (Skive, Denmark), Giacomo Mantefalcone (Rome), Sagi Chen (Haifa, Israel), Ari Mizrachi (Shoham, Israel) and Mordehai Margalit (Zichron Yaaqov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Earphones are configured to include an ear-tip to accommodate insertion into an ear canal and provide a leak free or low leakage acoustic connection between a speaker embedded in the earphone body and the ear. The earphone in this disclosure is furth...