ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,694, issued on June 9, was assigned to GOTO DENSHI Co. LTD. (Sagae, Japan).

"Voice coil and method for producing voice coil" was invented by Yoshihide Goto (Sagae, Japan) and Taiki Goto (Sagae, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Two ends 5A, 5B of an electric wire 4 forming a coil 2 are made non-insulated by removing films. These two ends 5A, 5B are bent along surfaces of respective corresponding conductive foils 3A, 3B including the electric wire 4 following thereto in wounded states. Under such bent states, two ends 5A, 5B are compacted within the corresponding conductive foils 3A, 3B and are connected and fixed to the conductive ...