ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,503, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Fabric speakers" was invented by Per Haakan Linus Persson (San Francisco), Claire Puginier (San Francisco), Bart K Andre (Palo Alto, Calif.), Geng Luo (Santa Clara, Calif.), Onur I Ilkorur (Santa Clara, Calif.), Kristen L Cretella (San Francisco), Megan A McClain (Napa, Calif.) and Benjamin A Shaffer (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device may include a speaker having fabric portions. The fabric-based speaker may have one or more fabric support layers on which other speaker components are disposed. In particular, the fabric-based ...