US Patent Issued to Apple on Jan. 13 for "Methods for outputting an audio output in accordance with a user being within a range of a device" (California, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,361, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods for outputting an audio output in accordance with a user being within a range of a device" was invented by Patrick L. Coffman (San Francisco), David Chance Graham (Columbus, Ohio) and Afrooz Family (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to interfaces and techniques for media playback on one or more devices. In accordance with some embodiments, an electronic device includes a display, one or more processors, and memory. The electronic device receives user input and, in response to receiving the user input, d...