ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,890, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Dual-speaker system" was invented by Daniel K. Boothe (San Francisco), Martin E. Johnson (Los Gatos, Calif.), David Sumberg (San Francisco), David A. Kalinowski (Davis, Calif.) and Peter V. Jupin (Copenhagen, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An output device that includes a housing, a first speaker driver that is integrated within the housing at a first location and is arranged to project sound into an ambient environment in a first direction, and a second speaker driver that is integrated within the housing at a second location that is different than the...