ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,239, issued on March 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Predicting amplification for broadcasts from personal devices" was invented by Yoav Vince Geva (Denver).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gain factors for amplifying audio data of live broadcasts from mobile devices are selected to ensure that distortions of audio data subsequently generated during the live broadcasts remain within targeted distortion ranges. When a creator initiates a live broadcast from a personal device, audio data captured by the personal device is subjected to amplification and a level of distortion of the audio data is determined. A gain...