US Patent Issued to Sonos on July 14 for "Spatial imaging on audio playback devices" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,282, issued on July 14, was assigned to Sonos Inc. (Goleta, Calif.).

"Spatial imaging on audio playback devices" was invented by Christopher Pike (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example techniques relate to stereo imaging with audio playback devices. Example playback devices described herein may include multiple speakers, such as a forward-firing audio transducer and side-firing audio transducers. Using example techniques, such playback devices may play stereo content partially directly and partially as a dipole, which may enhance (e.g., widen) a stereo image formed by the transducers. Yet further, such tech...