Today the US Patent & Trademark Office published a patent application from Apple that relates to their next-gen AirPods and over-ear headphones. The patent application covers configurations and methods of operation that use self-mixing interferometry signals of a self-mixing interferometry sensor to recognize user inputs. More specifically ...

Corporations have taken over a fundamental public good: identification. The future of identification looks gloomy.

The self-mixing interferometry signals may be used for bioauthentication and/or audio conditioning of received sound or voice inputs to a microphone.