ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,851, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Configuration system and method for aircraft equipment" was invented by Kotaro Ikeda (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An equalizer setting information generating system for an aircraft entertainment system includes an earphone characteristic acquiring section for acquiring characteristics of an earphone, an audio reproduction device identifying section for identifying acoustic characteristics of an audio reproduction device to be used with the earphone, and an equalizer information generating section or generating ...