US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on July 7 for "Telecoil based virtual audio jack for audio devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,090, issued on July 7, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Telecoil based virtual audio jack for audio devices" was invented by Peter Shintani (San Diego), Brant Candelore (Poway, Calif.) and Mahyar Nejat (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A telecoil device and a method for virtual audio jack for audio playback on external device is disclosed. The telecoil device Further, the electronic device controls a telecoil associated with the telecoil device to acquire an audio signal output of an electronic device. The audio signal output is inductively acquired by the telecoil based on a rendering of audio content by the electro...