US Patent Issued to USOUND on March 31 for "Acoustic transducer unit" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,166, issued on March 31, was assigned to USOUND GMBH (Graz, Austria).

"Acoustic transducer unit" was invented by Andrea Rusconi Clerici Beltrami (Vienna), Ferruccio Bottoni (Graz, Austria), Jakob Spoetl (Vienna) and Christian Novotny (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an acoustic transducer unit (1), in particular for in-ear headphones, having an electrodynamic acoustic transducer (2) comprising a first membrane (10), preferably with a membrane perforation (42), and having at least one MEMS acoustic transducer (3) comprising a second membrane (30)."

The patent was filed on Dec. 1, 2023, under Applicatio...