US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Jan. 27 for "Acoustic output device and method of controlling acoustic output device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,068, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Acoustic output device and method of controlling acoustic output device" was invented by Koya Sato (Tokyo), Kohei Asada (Tokyo) and Tetsunori Itabashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an acoustic output device that includes a housing, one or more outward microphones in the housing toward an outside of the housing, and two or more drivers that are provided inside the housing. Each of the two or more drivers generates an acoustic control sound based on an acoustic control signal."

The patent was filed on June 28, 2021, under Application No. 18/003,539....