ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,767, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to BOSE Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).
"Surround sound location virtualization" was invented by James Tracey (Norfolk, Mass.) and Guy Torio (Holliston, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer program product having a non-transitory computer-readable medium including computer program logic encoded thereon that, when performed on a surround sound audio system that is configured to render left front, right front, and center front audio signals, and also render left and right near-field binaurally-encoded audio signals, causes the surround sound audio system to develop the left and right near-fi...