ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,397, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for pre-generated inverse audio canceling" was invented by Charles Dasher (Lawrenceville, Ga.) and Christopher Phillips (Hartwell, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and method are provided for pre-generated inverse audio canceling. A system may identify source audio content that a first device is playing via a first speaker, retrieve pre-generated inverse audio content associated with the identified audio content, modify at least a portion of the retrieved inverse audio content, and cause the modified inverse audio content to be...