ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,331, issued on March 3, was assigned to Yamaha Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Method, system, and storage medium for controlling loudspeaker group delay" was invented by Kenji Ishizuka (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takahiro Ohno (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes acquiring a latency value defining delay of sound through a filter, acquiring a first group delay indicating delay for each frequency of sound of a first loudspeaker, acquiring a second group delay indicating delay for each frequency of sound of a second loudspeaker, calculating an adjustment amount for adjusting a first audio signal supplied to the first ...