ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,010, issued on July 28, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Earpad comprising one or more resonators" was invented by Falk-Martin Hoffmann (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An earpad comprising one or more acoustic resonators coupled to a contact face of the earpad that is configured to interface with a user's head, the acoustic resonators being configured to attenuate leakage of parasitic sound."

The patent was filed on March 15, 2022, under Application No. 18/280,683.

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