US Patent Issued to POLK AUDIO on June 17 for "Pivotable speaker with compressible ring" (Arizona, Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,673, issued on June 17, was assigned to POLK AUDIO LLC (Carlsbad, Calif.).

"Pivotable speaker with compressible ring" was invented by Mark Westcott (Battle Ground, Wash.), Michael L. Strange (Salem, Mass.) and Kurt Solland (Goodyear, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a speaker assembly (100) comprising a driver (120), a clamp (105), a retainer (118) and a compressible ring (116). The clamp (105) comprises a cavity (226) in which the driver (120) is located. The retainer (118) is configured to compress the compressible ring (116) against the clamp (105) at a pre-determined compression such that the...