US Patent Issued to Dolby Laboratories Licensing on Oct. 7 for "Narrow aperture waveguide loudspeaker for use with flat panel display devices" (Australian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,201, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).

"Narrow aperture waveguide loudspeaker for use with flat panel display devices" was invented by Benjamin Alexander Jancovich (Arncliffe, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speaker having a narrow aperture waveguide for transmitting sound from the rear side of a flat display panel. A transducer of the speaker radiates sound through the waveguide and outwards from the rear of the display panel and around an edge of the display panel to form soundwaves radiating directly or nearly directly to a listener positioned in front of the display pa...