US Patent Issued to Apple on June 23 for "Offset-soft mount for speaker induced force reduction" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,200, issued on June 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Offset-soft mount for speaker induced force reduction" was invented by Bao Liu (San Jose, Calif.), Junyi Yang (Fremont, Calif.), Yin Yuan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zhiwei Liu (Shanghai), Scott P. Porter (San Jose, Calif.), Jordi Antoni Garcia Selva (San Jose, Calif.), Kieran Poulain (San Francisco), Yanchu Xu (San Jose, Calif.), Kang Hou (Milpitas, Calif.) and Stuart M. Nevill (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speaker assembly including a first speaker comprising a first diaphragm and a first voice coil movably coupled to a first magnet assembly, ...