ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,920, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Spatialized audio relative to a peripheral device" was invented by Eric J. Freeman (Sutton, Mass.), David Avi Dick (Marlborough, Mass.), Wade P. Torres (Attleboro, Mass.), Daniel R. Tengelsen (Framingham, Mass.) and Eric Raczka Bernstein (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and devices are described for generating modified audio signals. The techniques include receiving an audio signal at a device, tracking a movement of the device, generating a first modified audio signal to spatialize the audio signal, generating a second modified audio ...