ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,699, issued on April 8, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Audio system with dynamic target listening spot and ambient object interference cancelation" was invented by Kai-Hsiang Chou (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio system is proposed, dynamically playing optimized audio signals based on user position. A sensor circuits dynamically senses a target space to generate field context information. First speaker and second speaker are arranged for audio playback. A host device recognizes a user from the field context information, determines the user position corresponding to the target s...