H04R 1/26
Spatial arrangements of separate transducers responsive to two or more frequency ranges
H04R1/26 (Spatial arrangements of separate transducers responsive to two or more frequency ranges) appears on 1,040 US grants and 1,123 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H04R- Granted patents
- 1,040
- Published applications
- 1,123
- Assignees
- 428
- Inventors
- 1,953
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2000 | 5 | 0 |
| 2001 | 15 | 1 |
| 2002 | 16 | 10 |
| 2003 | 10 | 10 |
| 2004 | 10 | 16 |
| 2005 | 4 | 20 |
| 2006 | 7 | 29 |
| 2007 | 12 | 23 |
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| 2009 | 9 | 29 |
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| 2018 | 61 | 78 |
| 2019 | 76 | 58 |
| 2020 | 67 | 66 |
| 2021 | 62 | 81 |
| 2022 | 64 | 66 |
| 2023 | 75 | 75 |
| 2024 | 75 | 71 |
| 2025 | 58 | 86 |
| 2026 | 28 | 73 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
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- Loudspeaker drive unit8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313287 A1Genelec Oy
- Sound-integrated display apparatus and an electronic apparatus8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313290 A1Postech Research and Business Development Foundation
- Foldable electronic device including a plurality of speakers and method of operating the same1 Oct 2026US 2026/0304041 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
- Display device having speaker10 Sep 2026US 2026/0270608 A1Wistron Corporation
- On-wall speaker system27 Aug 2026US 2026/0255099 A1Harman International Industries, Incorporated
Most cited
By later US patents
- Orientation-responsive acoustic driver selection405US 8,934,647 B2Bose Corporation · 2015
- Ad hoc sensor arrays376US 8,175,297 B1Google Inc. · 2012
- Electroacoustical transducing with low frequency augmenting devices304US 8,238,578 B2Bose Corporation · 2012
- Acoustic device295US 6,332,029 B1New Transducers Limited · 2001
- Ease-of-use wireless speakers279US 9,294,840 B1Logitech Europe S. A. · 2016