ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,919, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Method for determining a personalized head- related transfer function" was invented by Andrey Igorevich Epishin (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Anastasia Mikhaylovna Filchenkova (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia), Mikhail Sergeevich Kleshnin (Nizhny Novgorod, Russia) and Joy Lyons (Lake Forest Park, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented method for determining a personalized head-related transfer function, the method comprising: receiving a training dataset comprising one or more training images of ears of one or more first users, a ...