ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,871, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to SHENZHEN SHOKZ Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Bone conduction sound transmission devices" was invented by Wenbing Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Yongshuai Yuan (Shenzhen, China) and Wenjun Deng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is of a bone conduction sound transmission device. The bone conduction sound transmission device includes of a laminated structure and a base structure. The laminated structure is formed by a vibration unit and an acoustic transducer unit. The base structure is configured to load the laminated structure. At least one side of the laminated stru...