US Patent Issued to Harman International Industries on July 15 for "System and method for creating seat-based low frequency audio playback" (Nevada, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,498, issued on July 15, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"System and method for creating seat-based low frequency audio playback" was invented by Jason Riggs (Henderson, Nev.), Jeong-Woo Kim (Porter Ranch, Calif.), Joy Lyons (Seattle) and Thomas Wahnish (North Hollywood, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for playback of an audio signal at an individual seat-based sound (ISS) system in a coherent listening environment having a plurality of ISS systems and a plurality of listening modes. Each ISS system has a single transducer. A listening mode and a set of playback preferences are se...