ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,225,369, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Bang & Olufsen A/S (Struer, Denmark).
"Adaptive sound image width enhancement" was invented by Oliver Scheuregger (Valby, Denmark) and Lyle Bruce Clarke (Lunderskov, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides an approach for adaptive sound image width enhancement. A method of adaptively correcting sound image width is provided. The method includes obtaining an audio signal. The audio signal is associated with one or more audio channels. Each audio channel is associated with a position of an audio source with respect to a reference point within a local reproduction system. Th...