ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,930, issued on May 12, was assigned to GOERTEK INC. (Weifang, China).

"Sound generator and audio device" was invented by Miaomiao Wang (Weifang, China), Xiaodong Guo (Weifang, China), Chengfei Zhang (Weifang, China) and Chunfa Liu (Weifang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a sound generator and an audio device. The sound generator includes a magnetically conductive plate, a first magnetic structure, a second magnetic structure, a treble diaphragm, a treble voice coil, a bass diaphragm and a bass voice coil. The first magnetic structure includes a first washer including a first sub-washer located and a second sub-wash...