US Patent Issued on March 31 for "User experience localizing binaural sound during a telephone call" (Puerto Rico, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,593,190, issued on March 31.

"User experience localizing binaural sound during a telephone call" was invented by Glen A. Norris (Lakewood, Ohio) and Philip Scott Lyren (Rincon, Puerto Rico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus improve a user experience during telephone calls or other forms of communication in which a listener localizes electronically generated binaural sounds. The sound is convolved or processed to a location that is behind or near a source of the sound so that the listener perceives the location of the sound as originating from the source of the sound."

The patent was filed on Jan. 26, 2024, under Appli...