ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,165, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Method and system for context-dependent automatic volume compensation" was invented by Ronald J. Guglielmone Jr. (Redwood City, Calif.) and Christopher T. Eubank (Santa Barbara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a programmed processor of an electronic device. The device obtains an audio signal, obtains, using one or more microphones, a microphone signal that includes audio of an environment in which the electronic device is located. The device determines a context of the device, and selects a volume compensation model from several models ...