ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,347,451, issued on July 1, was assigned to Bang & Olufsen A/S (Struer, Denmark).
"Acoustic speaker cover material detection systems and methods" was invented by Andreas Pehn Sloth (Copenhagen, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting a cover sound profile, the cover sound profile including at least one sound sample produced from sound diffracted by a cover. The system includes a device comprising a housing and at least one speaker driver, at least on microphone, and at least one processor. The device is configured to selectively couple the cover via the housing and produce a sound via the at least one speaker driver. ...