Inventor-Controlled Plaintiff Launches Earbud Campaign

Zophonos Inc. has sued Samsung (2:25-cv-00752) over the provision of its Samsung Galaxy Buds Pro earbuds, as used with a Samsung Galaxy smartphone and the Galaxy Wearable app to "collect and identify surrounding sound" and then adjust their audio output to "prioritize certain frequencies and sounds through settings such as Ambient Sound, Conversation Mode, Siren Detect, Adapt sound and Voice Detect". The inventor-controlled plaintiff asserts three patents in the new Eastern District of Texas complaint.

Those patents (10,656,906; 11,204,736; 11,900,016) generally relate to a computing device with a sound sensing mechanism that detects "sensed energy", identifies and isolates certain frequencies; determines whether the frequency is outside a certain threshold; if the frequency is outside the threshold, either alters the sound so that the frequency is not outside the threshold, pans or equalizes the sensed energy or noise, or otherwise adds audio effects; and produces