ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,920, issued on May 12, was assigned to SSI NEW MATERIAL (ZHENJIANG) Co. LTD. (Zhenjiang, China).

"Expandable acoustic reinforcement member and manufacturing method therefor and use thereof" was invented by Lei Zhang (Zhenjiang, China), Junjie Zhao (Zhenjiang, China), Renkun Liu (Zhenjiang, China), Zhendan Zhang (Zhenjiang, China), Mingbo Guo (Zhenjiang, China) and Yuanhong Ma (Zhenjiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable acoustic reinforcement member and a manufacturing method therefor and the use thereof. When one or more expansion trigger conditions are applied, an apparent volume of the member is increased, and an ...