ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,707,223, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for a personalized audio system" was invented by Joy Lyons (Lake Forest Park, Wash.), Sean Olive (Oak Park, Calif.), Christian Garcia (Winnetka, Calif.), Todd Welti (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Alfredo Fernandez Franco (Sherman Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for personalized three-dimensional audio. In one embodiment, a sound calibration system comprises a headrest having a first speaker, a second speaker, and one or more sensors, the headrest configured to engage a head of ...