ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,720,269, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Distribution of audio signals for virtual sound sources" was invented by Alfredo Fernandez Franco (Los Angeles), Jason Riggs (Northridge, Calif.), Christopher Michael Trestain (Livonia, Mich.) and Anton Matushkin (Budapest, Hungary).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises determining a loudspeaker position of a loudspeaker in a listening environment, tracking an object position of an object within the listening environment, retrieving an audio signal, computing a distance between the o...