ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,782, issued on March 24, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Beamforming systems for personalized in-vehicle audio delivery to multiple passengers simultaneously" was invented by Warren Keith Edwards (Atlanta), Serhad Doken (Bryn Mawr, Pa.) and Reda Harb (Tampa, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided herein for providing personalized audio for different users in a vehicle. This may be accomplished by a vehicle entertainment system determining the positions of one or more users within the vehicle. The vehicle entertainment system may then select a zone configuration based on the determ...