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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:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2022
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Mruthun Rajkumar Thirumalaisamy, Cupertino, CA (US);
Justin D. Crosby, Cupertino, CA (US);
Mingzhou Li, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/24 (2006.01); G01S 5/02 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 21/24 (2013.01); G01S 5/0284 (2013.01);
Abstract
An electronic device may include an enclosure, an antenna within the enclosure and configured to transmit a wireless signal to a remote electronic device to allow a location of the electronic device to be determined, an audio output system configured to produce an audible output, and a processing system within the enclosure and configured to determine, based on an electrical response induced in the antenna, whether the audio output system fails an audio output performance criteria when provided with an audio signal.