ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,857, issued on July 29, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).
"Highly compliant miniature transducer" was invented by Lei Cheng (Wellesley, Mass.), Andrew D. Munro (Northborough, Mass.) and Mark A. Hayner (Belmont, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include miniature loudspeaker drivers. In some aspects, an electro-acoustic driver includes: a diaphragm having a surface area configured to radiate acoustic energy; a suspension coupled to the diaphragm, wherein the suspension is non-planar in a resting position; and a support structure coupled to the suspension and having an outer linear dimension in ...