ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,161, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Electronic device port" was invented by Jiahui Liang (San Francisco), Andrew L. Doyle (San Francisco), Yingyi Wang (Jiangsu, China) and Yu Song (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device can include a housing defining an aperture, a membrane extending across the aperture, and a non-metallic woven support mesh disposed parallel to the flexible membrane and extending across the aperture. In at least one example, the membrane is acoustically transparent and the membrane is air permeable and water impermeable. In addition, the support mesh can b...