ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,488, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to LG DISPLAY Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Active and passive vibration members for outputting sound" was invented by Taehyung Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Gyungbo Ha (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Seulki Nam (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Minjung Kim (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a passive vibration member and an active vibration member including a first active vibration member and a second active vibration member disposed at the passive vibration member. The first active vibration member...