ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,445, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to CASIO COMPUTER Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Speaker device and hood-type speaker device" was invented by Takahiro Mizushina (Kawagoe, Japan) and Masanori Ohta (Akishima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speaker device includes a frame, a left speaker and a right speaker that are coupled to the frame and are configured to be held at predetermined intervals, and a mounting portion that is coupled to left and right positions of the frame and is configured to be suspended by a head."

The patent was filed on Nov. 22, 2021, under Application No. 18/269,693.

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