US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Enhanced electrostatic discharge trap for microphones" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,260, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Enhanced electrostatic discharge trap for microphones" was invented by Javad Soleiman Meiguni (San Jose, Calif.), Ki-Hyuk Kim (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kevin Li (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrostatic discharge trap device for protecting a water-resistant microphone from electrostatic discharge may include a conductive material positioned between a microphone port and a microphone venting stack-up to prevent liquid entry into the microphone, wherein the electrostatic discharge trap device is configured to receive an electric spark from t...