ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,074, issued on April 14, was assigned to VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION Co. LTD. (Guangdong, China).

"Playback device, control method and control apparatus therefor, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Qian Su (Guangdong, China), Huiping Chen (Guangdong, China), Ruoyu Chen (Guangdong, China) and Qing Ye (Guangdong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A playback device including a housing, an audio player, a sound insulation cover, a target detection apparatus, and a driving mechanism. A sound hole is disposed on the housing, the sound insulation cover is disposed in the housing, the audio player is disposed in the soun...