ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,850, issued on July 21, was assigned to HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH (Karlsbad, Germany).

"Audio system arranged in a listening environment" was invented by Victor Kalinichenko (Putzbrunn, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio system arranged in a listening environment in a vehicle comprises at least one multimedia unit configured to output an audio signal, and at least one display loudspeaker, wherein each of the at least one display loudspeaker is coupled to the at least one multimedia unit and receives the audio signal from the at least one multimedia unit, and each of the at least one display loudspeaker compris...