ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,249, issued on March 17, was assigned to SHENZHEN SHOKZ Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for suppressing sound leakage" was invented by Lei Zhang (Shenzhen, China), Junjiang Fu (Shenzhen, China), Bingyan Yan (Shenzhen, China), Fengyun Liao (Shenzhen, China), Xin Qi (Shenzhen, China), Peigeng Tong (Shenzhen, China), Guolin Xie (Shenzhen, China), Yongjian Li (Shenzhen, China), Jiang Xu (Guangdong, China), Tao Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Duoduo Wu (Shenzhen, China) and Ao Ji (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speaker comprises a housing, a transducer residing inside the housing, and at least one sound guiding...