ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,348,950, issued on July 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Audio device and method for generating a three-dimensional soundfield" was invented by Simone Fontana (Munich), Jiang Li (Shenzhen, China) and Peter Grosche (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio device for providing an improved three-dimensional sound experience by means of the generated soundfield is provided. The audio device comprises a housing, which has an elliptical torus shape and a plurality of loudspeakers, and a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to process a plurality of input signals (L, R, UL, UR) in...