ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,532,115, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Anti-feedback audio device with dipole speaker and neural network(s)" was invented by Dragoslav Colich (Orange, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, methods, and systems are described for an anti-feedback audio device (100) comprising a dipole speaker (110) having an acoustically null sound plane (115) or acoustically null sound area (117), a first microphone (120) disposed substantially within the acoustically null sound plane (115) or acoustically null sound area (117), and a neural network (130) communicatively coupled to the dipole spe...