US Patent Issued to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING on April 8 for "Methods, apparatus and systems for audio reproduction" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,695, issued on April 8, was assigned to DOLBY LABORATORIES LICENSING Corp. (San Francisco).

"Methods, apparatus and systems for audio reproduction" was invented by Christophe Chabanne (Carpentras, France), Nicolas R. Tsingos (San Francisco) and Charles Q. Robinson (Piedmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Audio perception in local proximity to visual cues is provided. A device includes a video display, first row of audio transducers, and second row of audio transducers. The first and second rows can be vertically disposed above and below the video display. An audio transducer of the first row and an audio transducer of the sec...