ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,182, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to SHENZHEN SHOKZ Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).
"Earphones" was invented by Lei Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Peigeng Tong (Shenzhen, China), Guolin Xie (Shenzhen, China), Yongjian Li (Shenzhen, China), Jiang Xu (Shenzhen, China), Tao Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Duoduo Wu (Shenzhen, China), Ao Ji (Shenzhen, China) and Xin Qi (Shenzhen, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An earphone, including a sound production component; an ear-hook configured to place the sound production component near an ear canal without blocking an opening of the ear canal, at least a portion of the sound production component extends...