ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,033, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to SHENZHEN SHOKZ Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Bone conduction microphones" was invented by Yongshuai Yuan (Shenzhen, China), Wenbing Zhou (Shenzhen, China) and Wenjun Deng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is of a bone conduction microphone. The bone conduction microphone comprises of a laminated structure and a base structure. The laminated structure is formed by a vibration unit and an acoustic transducer unit. The base structure is configured to load the laminated structure. At least one side of the laminated structure is physically connected to the base stru...