ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,883, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH (Karlsbad-Ittersbach, Germany).
"Speaker with batched cones" was invented by Michael Schuster (Munich), Philipp Goeppl (Eresing, Germany), Andreas Helmut Pfeffer (Wenzenbach, Germany) and Stefan Erhard Dorr (Olching, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speaker sub-assembly has at least one active segment base segment, at least one batch segment, and a passive end segment. In one or more embodiments, speaker sub-assemblies with batched cones may be attached to each other by way of an adapter segment to create a dual-core speaker with batched cones. In ...