ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,003, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Sound reproduction device" was invented by Ryota Miyanaka (Osaka, Japan), Hiroyuki Kano (Hyogo, Japan), Kota Nakahashi (Osaka, Japan), Daiki Cho (Osaka, Japan), Yuki Odoriba (Osaka, Japan) and Kaname Tomita (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound reproduction device is configured to store a head of a user and reproduce sound. The sound reproduction device includes: a headrest portion; a partition portion attached to the headrest portion so as to protrude forward relative to a front surface of the headrest portion; a ...