ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,329, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco).
"User configurable audio loudspeaker" was invented by Joel A. Butler (Springfield, Mo.) and Jeremy David Sommerfeld (Nixa, Mo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a configurable loudspeaker using a user orientable routing card (120) that allows for multiple electrical drive modes in a non-powered loudspeaker system (122). The speaker has one or more drivers (126, 128) mounted in enclosure (124), an audio input interface configured to be coupled to an audio source (127) through one or more amplifiers (107, 127), and a connector interf...