ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,735, issued on July 15, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Portable speaker with orientation-dependent equalization" was invented by Kyle Brian McNicholas (Somerville, Mass.), Nabin Sagar Sharma (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Michael Stephen Danielson (Wrentham, Mass.), Paul Larsen (Medford, Mass.), Rebecca Kowalczyk (Ashland, Mass.) and Meir Mechtinger (Ashland, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects include portable speakers and methods of controlling such speakers. In a particular implementation, a portable loudspeaker includes: a controller configured to control an audio output according to at least two distinct...