ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,151, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Signal processing device, audio output device, and signal processing method" was invented by Yoshinori Tamori (Tokyo), Shinpei Tsuchiya (Tokyo) and Tetsunori Itabashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal processing device according to the disclosed technology includes an output control section, a frequency analysis section, and a frequency response compilation section. The output control section causes multiple audio output drivers disposed in an audio output device to generate multiple audio outputs with different combinations of output frequency bands of...