ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,610,182, issued on April 21, was assigned to AAG Technologies (Nanjing) Co. Ltd. (Nanjing, China).

"Smart device for reducing sound leakage, method, and system, and computer device" was invented by Kejia Liu (Nanjing, China), Yufen Chu (Nanjing, China), Yuheng Jiang (Nanjing, China), Wenkai He (Nanjing, China) and Kang Zhang (Nanjing, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart device for reducing sound leakage includes a frame, a main sound-generating device, an auxiliary sound-generating device, and a controller. The controller is configured to generate a control signal based on an electrical signal of the main sound-generating devic...