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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025
Filed:
May. 08, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Scott C. Grinker, Belmont, CA (US);
Ali N. Ergun, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Anthony D. Minervini, Gilroy, CA (US);
Claudio Notarangelo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew A. Donarski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Implementations of the subject technology provide for a microphone in the front volume of a speaker. The speaker and the microphone may be provided in a single speaker assembly. The microphone may be implemented as an error microphone or a feedback microphone. The microphone may be mounted to a speaker frame of the speaker, with a sound-sensitive element of the microphone in the front volume of the speaker on a first side of the speaker frame, and with conductive contacts for the microphone disposed on an opposing second side of the speaker frame.