ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,205, issued on June 23, was assigned to TYMPHANY HK Ltd. (Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong).

"Transducers and manufacturing methods thereof" was invented by Andrew Trippier Holt (Taipei City, Taiwan), Wen-Hong Wang (Taipei City, Taiwan), Chia-Chien Chen (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Yi-Hui Hsiao (Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a transducer including: a bracket, a voice coil, and a connecting terminal. The bracket has a first hole located in the center area and a notch located in the edge area. The voice coil includes a body, two tinsel wires extend from the periphery of the body of the voice coil, and at...