ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,476, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Method and system for volume control" was invented by Ross B. Peard (San Jose, Calif.) and Pratik Shah (Milpitas, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a first electronic device, the method includes, while engaged in a call with a second electronic device, initiating a joint media playback session in which the first and second electronic devices independently stream media content for synchronous playback; driving a speaker with a mix of a downlink signal of the call and an audio signal of the media content at an overall volume level; receiv...