US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on July 7 for "Sound output device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,677,092, issued on July 7, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sound output device" was invented by Yukio Nagahama (Tokyo), Koji Miura (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Shirakawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound output device includes a speaker unit that includes a diaphragm and outputs sound in a full-range frequency band a sound control body that includes a sound guiding portion through which sound output from the speaker unit passes, in which the sound guiding portion has an opening on the speaker unit side, the opening being provided as a sound input part, and has an opposite opening on a side opposite to the sound input part, ...