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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2024
Filed:
Apr. 24, 2023
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jason Joseph LeBlanc, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Rohan Gupta, Union City, CA (US);
Robert D. Zupke, San Jose, CA (US);
Todd K. Moyer, Portland, OR (US);
Cuneyt Bakan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Brooke L. Bunney, Mountain View, CA (US);
Justin T. Ng, Temple City, CA (US);
Jeff A. Kalt, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tian Shi Li, Campbell, CA (US);
Lionel B. Barrow, Oakland, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/10 (2006.01); H04R 5/033 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04R 1/1041 (2013.01); H04R 1/1066 (2013.01); H04R 1/1091 (2013.01);
Abstract
A detachable headband for a headphone system can incorporate a headband identification circuit that stores or encodes a headband identification parameter value. When the headband becomes attached to an ear cup, the headband can transmit the headband identification parameter value to the ear cup.