ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,920, issued on March 17, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Audio system control device" was invented by Lauren Taylor Westendorf (Waltham, Mass.), Joel Henry Miller (Westborough, Mass.), Jenna Marie Duggan-Lykes (Hyde Park, Mass.), Todd Richard Reily (North Reading, Mass.), Thomas David Chambers (Bellingham, Mass.) and Zachary James McHugh (Lunenburg, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include devices and approaches for controlling an audio system. In particular cases, a device with a rotatable feature having distinct operating modes is used to control a remote audio device. The rotatable fea...