ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,614, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to SHENZHEN SHOKZ Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).
"Systems and methods for suppressing sound leakage" was invented by Lei Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Junjiang Fu (Shenzhen, China), Bingyan Yan (Shenzhen, China), Fengyun Liao (Shenzhen, China) and Xin Qi (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speaker comprises a housing, a transducer residing inside the housing, and at least one sound guiding hole located on the housing. The transducer generates vibrations. The vibrations produce a sound wave inside the housing and cause a leaked sound wave spreading outside the housing from a portion of the ho...