ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,923, issued on May 12, was assigned to Suzhou Sonavox Electronics Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Vehicle-mounted sound system and open-circuit detection method for loudspeaker thereof" was invented by Hongbing Ding (Suzhou, China) and Yurong Wu (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Discloses are a vehicle-mounted sound system, an open-circuit detection circuit and an open-circuit detection method for a loudspeaker thereof. The vehicle-mounted sound system includes an open-circuit detection circuit including a switching circuit, the switching circuit is connected between an output port of a control module of a power amplifier and a...