US Patent Issued to SHENZHEN SHOKZ on Oct. 21 for "Earphones" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,574, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SHENZHEN SHOKZ Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Earphones" was invented by Jiang Xu (Shenzhen, China), Zeying Zheng (Shenzhen, China) and Haofeng Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides an earphone, comprising a sound production component and an ear hook configured to place the sound production component near an ear canal but not blocking an ear canal opening. An inner contour of a projection of the ear hook on a user's sagittal plane includes a first curve having an extremum point in a first direction. The first direction is perpendicular to a long-axi...