ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,187, issued on March 25, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Speaker apparatus and chair" was invented by Atsushi Homma (Tokyo) and Takahiro Hayasaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speaker apparatus includes a pair of left and right speaker blocks that respectively have acoustic output sections and that are arranged inside a backrest. The pair of speaker blocks are arranged horizontally side by side relative to a headrest located on a front surface side of the backrest, and at least part of the headrest is located within a range of a nominal directivity angle of acoustics output from the acoustic output sections. Thi...