ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,034, issued on June 10, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Japan).

"Audio device and driving method thereof, and display device" was invented by Yoshio Ohashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Shin Yamaguchi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Manabu Hamakawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology relates to an audio device and a driving method thereof, and a display device which are configured to make it possible to obtain sufficient sound pressure level in a wider frequency band.The audio device includes: a diaphragm; an electrodynamic vibrator that vibrates the diaphragm to output sound; and a piezoelectric vibrator that vibrates the diap...