ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,060, issued on May 27, was assigned to Faurecia Clarion Electronics Europe (Paris).

"Audio method and system for a seat headrest" was invented by Jean Francois Rondeau (Presles, France), Christophe Mattei (Linkoping, Sweden) and Nicolas Pignier (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio processing method for an audio system for a seat headrest, the audio system having at least two loudspeakers positioned on either side of the headrest and an audio processing module designed to apply at least one audio processing operation. The method includes the steps of: acquiring images of the head of a user of the audio system using an im...