ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,389,180, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
"Manipulation of playback device response using signal processing" was invented by Mike Chamness (Gloucester, Mass.) and Romi Kadri (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques involve outputting multiple audio channels using a multiple driver playback device. An example playback device receives a first and second channel of audio content. The playback device plays back play back the first channel via a first group of audio transducers such that the first group of audio transducers form, via superposition, a first response lobe hav...