US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 8 for "Enhanced audio using personal audio device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,770, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Enhanced audio using personal audio device" was invented by Christopher T. Eubank (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Ronald J. Guglielmone Jr. (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-worn device can determine that a playback device is outputting audio content. A microphone of the head-worn device can sense the audio content that is output by the playback device. Spatial filters can be applied to one or more audio channels of additional audio content that complements the audio content output by the playback device. The resulting spatialized audio can...