ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,046, issued on May 27, was assigned to SHENZHEN LUXSHARE ACOUSTICS TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Double-sided speaker" was invented by ZhiHua Tong (Shenzhen, China) and Chih-Kai Sun (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A double-sided speaker, comprising a combination of magnetic conductive carrying plate with a side magnetic conductive member (or a magnetic conductive carrying plate component), a first magnetic circuit module, a second magnetic circuit module, a first voice coil, a second voice coil, a first vibrating component, and a second vibrating component. The magnetic conductive carrying plate comprises two sid...