US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 20 for "System and method for managing multi-device connections with a headset using spatial audio" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,772,001, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"System and method for managing multi-device connections with a headset using spatial audio" was invented by Darius A. Satongar (Staffordshire, Great Britain), James H. Foster (Oxford, Great Britain), Per Haakan Linus Persson (San Francisco) and Sean B. Kelly (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A headset that includes several speaker drivers, a processor, and memory having stored therein instructions which when executed by the processor causes the headset to receive, from an electronic device and via a first wireless communication link, an audio signal,...