US Patent Issued to Google on July 21 for "Magnetically self-shielded speaker box for a mobile device" (Illinois, California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,851, issued on July 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Magnetically self-shielded speaker box for a mobile device" was invented by Michael J. Lombardi (South Barrington, Ill.), Fuk Kiu Lee (Cupertino, Calif.), Joseph L. Allore (Mundelein, Ill.) and Meiling Zhang (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present document describes techniques for a magnetically self-shielded speaker box for a mobile device. The speaker box described herein includes a thin metal enclosure, thereby reducing or eliminating plastic components from the exterior enclosure of the speaker box. The metal of the enclosure has a high ma...