ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,822, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Method and system for estimating environmental noise attenuation" was invented by Andrew E. Greenwood (San Francisco), Ian M. Fisch (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Tyrone T. Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Nicholas D. Felton (Cupertino, Calif.), Mary-Ann Rau (San Francisco) and Kevin M. Lynch (Woodside, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method that includes determining a level of sound within an acoustic environment captured by a microphone; receiving, from a headset worn by a user, data indicating an audio processing mode in which the headset is operating; determining a l...