US Patent Issued to Apple on May 27 for "Methods and user interfaces for monitoring sound reduction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,632, issued on May 27, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and user interfaces for monitoring sound reduction" was invented by Nicholas D. Felton (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ruchi N. Goswami (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Matthew E. Leon (San Francisco) and David Harrison (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces and techniques for managing and visualizing sound reduction using a computer system. In accordance with some embodiments, the computer system displays a representation of a noise level including, in accordance with a sound reduction display option be...