ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,234, issued on May 27, was assigned to Otowahr Technology Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Electromagnetic microspeaker, its coil module, speaker/coil module array and preparation method thereof" was invented by Yu Min Fu (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Tung Yu Wu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Tse Chih Tang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a coil module, comprising: a vibrating membrane suspended on an air chamber defined and supported by a first substrate, at least one planar coil, embedded in the vibrating membrane, and at least a soft magnet, embedded in the vibrating membrane and disposed surrounding at least a portion of a contou...