ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,901, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to CANON DENSHI K.K. (Saitama, Japan).

"High-performance and flexible loudspeaker apparatus usable in various scenes" was invented by Hiroyuki Nakamura (Tokyo), Minoru Tsuruta (Chichibu, Japan), Yoshihito Yamada (Honjo, Japan) and Takao Kakizakai (Chichibu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-performance and flexible loudspeaker apparatus usable in various scenes. A first unit includes a loudspeaker therein, a second unit is connected to a lower portion of the first unit, the first unit comprises the loudspeaker provided in a housing of the first unit so as to output a sound toward an upp...