US Patent Issued to Google on March 24 for "Speaker array addressed by row and column selection" (Swiss, Swedish, Hungarian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,788, issued on March 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Speaker array addressed by row and column selection" was invented by Jyrki Antero Alakuijala (Wollerau, Switzerland), Matthew Sharifi (Kilchberg, Switzerland), Martin Bruse (Tyreso, Sweden), Zoltan Szabadka (Gyorujbarat, Hungary), Thomas Fischbacher (Gattikon, Switzerland), Sami Boukortt (Zurich), Moritz Firsching (Basel, Switzerland) and Evgenii Kliuchnikov (Thalwil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Spatial audio may be generated by a speaker array that is switched according to rows and/or columns to reduce its cost and complexity. The speaker a...