ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,701,377, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Acoustic processing device, acoustic processing method, acoustic processing program, and acoustic processing system" was invented by Toshiya Kaihoko (Tokyo), Masashi Honda (Tokyo), Tetsuo Ikeda (Tokyo), Yoshikazu Ohura (Tokyo), Yukiko Unno (Tokyo) and Yuki Andoh (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acoustic processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a recommended environment defined for each content, the recommended environment including an ideal arrangement of speakers in a space in which the content is reproduced; a measurement unit that measure...