ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,631, issued on June 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Providing personalized audio" was invented by Taylor G. Carrigan (San Francisco), Patrick L Coffman (San Francisco), Amy E. Dedonato (San Francisco), Charles C. Hoyt (Pacifica, Calif.), Christine A. Franco (Menlo Park, Calif.), Mitchell L Lerner (San Francisco), Camille Moussette (San Francisco), Pavel Pivonka (San Francisco), Christopher J. Sanders (San Jose, Calif.) and Hugo D. Verweij (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to personalized spatial audio profiles and providing personalized spatial audio."...