ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,291,135, issued on May 6, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).
"Seatback speakers" was invented by Nicholas K. Lade (Waltham, Mass.), Bradford Kyle Subat (Northborough, Mass.) and Charles Terence Henry Oswald (Salem, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include seats and related loudspeakers. In particular cases, a seat includes: a seat headrest portion; a seat backrest portion; and a loudspeaker assembly including: at least one driver for generating an acoustic output; and an acoustic exit fixed in the seat backrest portion and angled to provide the acoustic output to a location below a nominal ear posi...