ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,076, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to DENSO TEN Ltd. (Kobe, Japan).
"Sound device and control method" was invented by Yutaka Matsunami (Kobe, Japan), Junji Amaya (Kobe, Japan) and Toshio Nakamichi (Kobe, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound device for controlling a panel speaker configured to output sound by vibrating a single panel with a plurality of vibration actuators, the sound device includes a controller configured to select a stereo mode in which each of the plurality of vibration actuators is vibrated by a sound signal of each channel included in a content, and a monaural mode in which the plurality of vibration ac...