ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,789, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Bang & Olufsen A/S (Struer, Denmark).

"Method and system for surround sound setup using microphone and speaker localization" was invented by Jonas Martin Helm (Hamburg, Germany) and Jakob Dyreby (Struer, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method and system for calibrating a loudspeaker system in an environment (1). The loudspeaker system comprises an audio device (10) with a first and second loudspeaker arranged with a predetermined horizontal separation. The method comprises the steps of emitting (S2a, S2b) a first and second calibration audio signal f...