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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:
Nov. 30, 1999
Filed:
Dec. 01, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:
William Dunn, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Scott F Fullam, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
PocketScience, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
379 9337 ; 379444 ;
Abstract
A coupler is provided which may be incorporated into a handheld communications device to permit the handheld device to be acoustically coupled to a variety of telephone handsets. The device may include a spring-biased, adjustable microphone arm onto which a microphone is mounted in order to acoustically couple the microphone to the telephone handset. The microphone arm may be adjustable to adapt to a variety of telephone handset styles, such as cellular telephones or cordless telephones, in order to permit the acoustical coupling to be achieved with a large number of different telephone handsets.