ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,031, issued on May 27, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Electrical device" was invented by Shohei Kawagoe (Osaka, Japan) and Katsushi Tamai (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The electrical device is an electrical device that is mounted on a wall of a building, the electrical device including: an actuator that vibrates; and absorbing member that absorbs vibration of the actuator and is positioned behind the actuator in a predetermined direction, where a direction from a back side to a front side of the wall is defined as a direction toward a front in the predetermined dire...