US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Aug. 25 for "Sound output device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,246, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sound output device" was invented by Ryo Tsuchiya (Tokyo), Takayuki Horikiri (Tokyo), Daisuke Matsuo (Tokyo) and Kento Oomori (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing including an arrangement space therein and in which an insertion hole communicating with the arrangement space is formed; a control circuit board arranged in the arrangement space; an operation button including a pressed portion having a front surface formed as a pressed surface to be pressed when the operation button is operated and an engagement protrusion protruding from the pressed portion and...