ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,076, issued on May 13, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).
"Audio system with mixed rendering audio enhancement" was invented by James Walter Tracey (Norfolk, Mass.), Guy Anthony Torio (Holliston, Mass.), Eric John Freeman (Sutton, Mass.), Nathan Blagrove (Hanover, Mass.) and Santiago Carvajal (Sagamore Beach, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include audio systems and methods for mixed rendering to enhance audio output. Certain implementations include an audio system having: at least one far-field speaker configured to output a first portion of an audio signal; and a pair of non-occluding near-...