ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,558, issued on June 10, was assigned to Sowa Sound ApS (Kobenhavn V, Denmark).

"Sound output unit and a method of operating it" was invented by Villads Sorensen (Kobenhavn NV, Denmark), Andreas Ranch (Kobenhavn N, Denmark), Mads Vraa (Kobenhavn S, Denmark), Soren Manicus (Charlottenlund, Denmark) and Rune Domsten (Bronjshoj, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method for outputting sound where one or more first sound outputting units are identified and other, second, sound outputting units define a sound delay in accordance with the relative positions between each sound outputting unit and the first sound outputting...