ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,097, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Techniques for dynamically managing a low-frequency sound field using non-low-frequency loudspeakers" was invented by Todd S. Welti (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Jason Riggs (Northridge, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include techniques for generating a low-frequency sound field for an audio system. A computing device in the audio system determines that a first playback level of an audio input is less than a maximum playback level of the audio system. Based on the first playback level, the computing device retri...