ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,033, issued on July 28, was assigned to BENQ Corp. (Taipei City, Taiwan).

"Display apparatus and sound reception control method thereof" was invented by Chin-Fu Chiang (New Taipei City, Taiwan) and Chih-Wen Li (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display apparatus includes a first display device having two first sound reception units, a second display device having two second sound reception units, and a sound reception processor. The second display device is connected to a side of the first display device. The sound reception processor is coupled to the first sound reception units and the second sound reception uni...