Many years ago, after Brian had adopted his Planar Ribbon path, he evaluated the qualities of Planar and Ribbon Drivers and looked at further means to improve upon their performance.
While it is clear that a good Planar Ribbon can do a lot of things, it is also clear that dispersion and directivity was not their strong suit.
Over 5 years ago, Brian decided to implement a technology of combining his Planar Ribbons with an acoustic lens/aperture/wave guide that would cause the sound to behave and respond to moving through the opening in a way that produces a greater and constant directivity to the frequencies he chose base on the specific size of the opening.
Upon using this Wave Guide he then applied for a
US Patent.
Just recently he has been informed that the
Patent 7,835,537 will issue November 16, 2010.
I have a little experience with patents and have had a few issued myself. Let me tell you it
IS NOT an easy process. The original submission is almost 100% of the time rejected, and you need to
argue and
clarify CLAIMS for YEARS.
In this case it took 5 years.
Speaker and Audio technologies are often very technical and address the Physics of Sound Propagation, Transmission and other elements, so just writing the claims and how they are novel can also be a challenge.
While many may not know this Brian is a member of the
AES. (Audio Engineering Society) and pays very strict attention to the Sciences of Audio and Psychocoustics.
I remember hearing about this idea of his and how it would affect the sound waves as they passed through the Acoustic Lens many years ago.
I just wanted to take this opportunity to
CONGRATULATE Brian on developing this technology to the point it could be patented and then tenaciously pursuing it through the gauntlet laid down by the patent examiners.
We will be issuing a Press Release to the Audio Media, but I wanted to post a quick congratulatory post.
CONGRATULATIONS B!!
