ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,084, issued on April 15, was assigned to SHENZHEN SHOKZ Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Earphone" was invented by Zeying Zheng (Shenzhen, China), Jiang Xu (Shenzhen, China), Yonggen Wang (Shenzhen, China), Haofeng Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Gan Lai (Shenzhen, China), Chong Wang (Shenzhen, China), Liwei Wang (Shenzhen, China), Ruixin Han (Shenzhen, China), Lei Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Junjiang Fu (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses an earphone. The earphone may include a hook-shaped component, a connecting component, and a holding component. When the earphone is in a wearing state, the hook-sh...