ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,004, issued on July 21, was assigned to SSV Works Inc. (Camarillo, Calif.).

"Audio amplifier with integrated digital signal processing and selectable profiles" was invented by Trevor Kaplan (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Eleuterio T. Lopez Jr. (Oxnard, Calif.) and Jeremy Prater (Oxnard, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to the creation, modification, and selection of a plurality of audio profiles in programmable audio amplifiers. Embodiments of the present disclosure include an input device, a programmable amplifier device, a controller, and an output device. In certain embodiments, the audio amplifie...