US Patent Issued to Harman International Industries on Jan. 27 for "Method and system for authentication and compensation" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,063, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Method and system for authentication and compensation" was invented by Shao-Fu Shih (Mountain View, Calif.), Jianwen Zheng (Shenzhen, China) and Songcun Chen (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes performing an authentication for a user based on a headphone transfer function (HPTF) of the user when the user wears the headphone. The method includes detecting whether a frequency response deviation exists between the HPTF of the user and a tuned HPTF. The method includes dynamically compensating for the HPTF of the...