ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,356, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICA (Torrance, Calif.).

"Information processing method, recording medium, and sound reproduction device" was invented by Ko Mizuno (Osaka, Japan), Seigo Enomoto (Kyoto, Japan) and Tomokazu Ishikawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information processing method includes: calculating an angular amount of change in a predetermined direction in a time domain from sound information including information regarding a predetermined sound and information regarding the predetermined direction; selecting, based on the information regarding ...