ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,870, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Harman Becker Automotive Systems Gmbh (Karlsbad-Ittersbach, Germany).

"Spatial sound improvement for seat audio using spatial sound zones" was invented by Matthias Von Saint-George (Pfinztal, Germany), Martin Olsen (Struer, Denmark) and Daniel Bracht (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method performed by an audio system including a processor and a plurality of loudspeakers, comprises receiving an audio signal to be output to a listener, obtaining a first Head Related Transfer Function (HRTF) corresponding to a first predefined listening pose of the listene...