ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,870, issued on March 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Interrupt for noise-cancelling audio devices" was invented by Baptiste P. Paquier (Saratoga, Calif.), Aram M. Lindahl (Menlo Park, Calif.), Adam E. Kriegel (Mountain View, Calif.), Kisun You (Campbell, Calif.) and Sarang S. Ranade (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the subject technology provide systems and methods for determining whether to interrupt a user of an audio device that is operating in a noise-cancelling mode of operation. For example, the user may desire to be interrupted by one or more pre-designated contacts that...