ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,339, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to D&M HOLDINGS INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Speaker system, sound bar, wireless speaker, and method for controlling speaker system" was invented by Yukihiro Yoshida (Fukushima, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem] To enable a sound bar and a wireless speaker to be grouped and ungrouped through a simple operation. [Solution] When a user moves a controller 3 closer to a sound bar 1, the sound bar 1 reads tag information from an RFID tag 30 of the controller 3 by using an RFID tag reader 10, detects that the user has performed an operation to move the controller 3 closer to the sound bar 1, and ...