ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,160, issued on July 8, was assigned to D&M HOLDINGS INC. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Multi-channel audio system, multi-channel audio device, program, and multi-channel audio playback method" was invented by Kazuhiko Yonemori (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem] To provide a technology capable of comfortably enjoying audio content via multiple channels even in a noisy environment. [Solution] A wireless terminal 3 is disposed at a listening point of a multi-channel audio device 1. The multi-channel audio device 1 plays a multi-channel audio signal as audio playback signals of a plurality of channels, and outputs an audio pl...