Patent Review: Desktop Audio Monitor System and Method

In this patents review, James Croft looks at one of the most interesting concepts for a “Desktop Audio Monitor System and Method.” US Patent 9036837, was granted in 2015 to James Tuomy (Framingham, MA), Barry Michael Kosherick (Hudson, MA), Laurie Wilk (Framingham, MA), and J. Richard Aylward (Ashland, MA). The concept was actually introduced to the market a year earlier, and made its big debut at the NAMM Show 2015, by Phasx Technologies. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, August 2015.

Recently, there has been increased demand for loudspeaker 3-D directivity measurements both in the near- and far-fields for different applications. New holographic near-field scanning techniques provide new ways to determine the sound pressure at any point in the 3-D sound field. This article was originally published in Voice Coil, May 2015.