ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,916, issued on May 12, was assigned to SHENZHEN SHOKZ Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Vibration sensor" was invented by Yongshuai Yuan (Shenzhen, China), Wenjun Deng (Shenzhen, China), Yujia Huang (Shenzhen, China), Wenbing Zhou (Shenzhen, China), Fengyun Liao (Shenzhen, China) and Xin Qi (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a vibration sensor including a vibration assembly including a mass element and an elastic element, a first acoustic chamber, an acoustic transducer, and a buffer member. In response to an external vibration signal, the vibration assembly vibrates such that a volume of the fi...