ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,838, issued on March 3, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Speaker distortion correction device" was invented by Yuji Saito (Fukushima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speaker distortion correction device includes an amplifier configured to drive a speaker; and a distortion corrector. An input signal is input to the distortion corrector, and an output of the distortion corrector is input to the amplifier. The distortion corrector includes a nonlinear distortion controller configured to generate a corrected signal obtained by performing a nonlinear distortion correction process on the input signal so that nonlinear ...