ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,765, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Bryx Inc. (Rochester, N.Y.).

"Method and apparatus for speaker matrix" was invented by David Thomas (Rochester, N.Y.) and Trevor Sherrard (Rochster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A speaker control system, including a speaker matrix, including a de-multiplexer including one or more audio control relays, a control unit operatively arranged to set the state of the one or more audio control relays, and determine the state of the one or more audio control relays, and a communication module."

The patent was filed on Sept. 8, 2023, under Application No. 18/463,346.

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