ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,590, issued on Feb. 10.
"Static electricity elimination floating tonearm" was invented by Huan-Chih Huang (Changhua County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A static electricity elimination floating tonearm includes a tonearm base, a tonearm, a deflector and an ion air-pressure device. An air-floating arm tube extends horizontally from a side of the tonearm base, a top edge of the air-floating arm tube is provided with air holes arranged at intervals, the tonearm includes a floating piece and an arm rod, and the ion air-pressure device is provided for generating an airflow with positive and negative ions which is sent into the c...