ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,489, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to ACER Inc. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Speaker module" was invented by Jia-Ren Chang (New Taipei, Taiwan), Ruey-Ching Shyu (New Taipei, Taiwan) and Chien-Chung Chen (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speaker module includes a casing, a speaker unit and a first vibration absorber. The speaker unit has a sound cavity. The speaker unit is disposed on a first wall of the casing. The speaker unit includes a diaphragm, a coil and a magnet, and the coil is configured to drive the diaphragm to vibrate relative to the magnet. The first vibration absorber is disposed in the sound cavity, an...