ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,235, issued on March 24, was assigned to CEVA Technologies Inc. (Rockville, Md.).

"Systems and methods for head related transfer function personalization" was invented by Ramani Duraiswami (Highland, Md.), Bowen Zhi (College Park, Md.) and Dmitry Zotkin (College Park, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A head-related transfer function (HRTF) generation system includes one or more processors configured to retrieve first image data of a first ear of a subject, compare the first image data with second image data of a plurality of second ears to identify a particular second ear of the plurality of second ears matching the first ear, ide...