US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on June 23 for "Predictive sound control of vents for a hearable device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,193, issued on June 23, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Predictive sound control of vents for a hearable device" was invented by James R. Milne (Ramona, Calif.), Brant L. Canderlore (Poway, Calif.), Justin Kenefick (San Diego) and William Clay (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hearable vent control system is provided to enable vents in hearable devices to automatically be at least partially closed in response to the system predicting a potential for a loud sound to occur above a threshold volume in the environment. An image capture device is utilized to produce images of the environment. The images are analyzed t...