ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,363, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Method and device for interrupting media playback" was invented by Jessica Trinh (Oakland, Calif.), Brian W. Temple (Santa Clara, Calif.), Eddy Zexin Liang (Seattle) and Ronald J. Guglielmone Jr. (Redwood City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, the method includes: while presenting media via a computing system, obtaining an audio sample from within a physical environment; in response to obtaining the audio sample, determining a class for the audio sample; determining a priority value for the audio sample based on the determined class...