US Patent Issued to xMEMS Labs on June 9 for "Personal electronic device enhancing call privacy" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,586, issued on June 9, was assigned to xMEMS Labs Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Personal electronic device enhancing call privacy" was invented by Jemm Yue Liang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chieh-Yao Chang (Taipei, Taiwan) and JengYaw Jiang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A personal electronic device includes a main sound producing device, configured to produce an intended sound for an intended user; and an auxiliary sound producing device, configured to produce a masking sound or an anti-sound to reduce a speech intelligibility of a bystander within a neighborhood of the intended user of the personal electronic device."

The...