ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,628, issued on May 5, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for providing augmented audio" was invented by Charles Oswald (Salem, N.Y.) and Michael S. Dublin (Arlington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for providing spatialized audio in a vehicle, including a vehicle orientation sensor outputting a vehicle orientation signal and being disposed on the vehicle and a controller configured to receive a user orientation signal output from a user orientation sensor being on a wearable that, during use, moves with a first user's head, wherein the controller is further configured to determine an ori...