ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,581,261, issued on March 17, was assigned to FAURECIA CLARION ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Saitama, Japan).

"Sound processing system and sound processing method" was invented by Yuki Kashina (Saitama, Japan) and Chihiro Kuwayama (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound processing system includes: a function acquisition unit that acquires an interaural cross correlation function when listening to sound output from a plurality of speakers at a predetermined listening position; a position determination unit that determines a target position based on an interaural cross correlation function of a predetermined range of interaural cros...