US Patent Issued to D&M HOLDINGS on June 24 for "Audio device, audio system, and computer-readable program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,342,147, issued on June 24, was assigned to D&M HOLDINGS INC. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Audio device, audio system, and computer-readable program" was invented by Yoshiharu Imahama (Kanagawa, Japan), Shunichi Tani (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yusuke Higashimoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To enable listening with a desired number of channels at a lower cost and without wasting resources. According to the present invention, a multi-channel digital audio signal is processed through the cooperation of a plurality of AV amplifier devices. One AV amplifier device 1 serves as a master, and distributes the audio channels to be processed ...