ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,439, issued on April 7, was assigned to HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Power fault recovery mechanism for an audio system" was invented by Jobin Mathew Varughese (Sachse, Texas) and Paul J. Weaver (Sachse, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, an audio system for providing a fault recovery mechanism is provided. The system includes at least one digital signal processor (DSP) and at least one host processor. The at least one DSP is programmed to process an audio input signal to transmit an audio output signal to an amplifier for playing back the audio output signal in a listening en...