ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,286, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Flexound Audio Oy (Nummela, Finland).

"Controlling reproduction of sound and vibration" was invented by Tommi Immonen (Vantaa, Finland), Jukka Linjama (Espoo, Finland), Aki Kivivirta (Helsinki) and Vesa Valimaki (Espoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing assembly is provided, the signal processing assembly comprising: a signal processing portion for deriving an output signal based on an input signal; and a control portion for controlling derivation of the output signal in the signal processing portion for rendering by a sound and vibration reproduction apparatus. The contr...