ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,257, issued on March 17, was assigned to DATAVAULT AI INC. (Beaverton, Ore.).

"Systems and methods for audio source localization in a multi-speaker system" was invented by Mitchell Fantuz (Beaverton, Ore.), Kenneth A. Boehlke (Beaverton, Ore.) and Jason R. Abele (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods enable audio source localization by receiving, by a processor of speaker unit in a group of networked speaker units, an audio signal associated with an audio source representing audio produced by the audio source and captured by beamforming microphones associated with the speaker unit. The processor determin...