ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,464, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Artifact reduction on transitions between audio tracks" was invented by Francois Becker (Essonne, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio artifact reduction technique operates on a pair of temporally-adjacent audio tracks. Samples at an end portion of a first track may be altered according to an inter-track sample discontinuity at a boundary between the two tracks. Samples at a beginning portion of a second track also may be altered according to the inter-track discontinuity. These altering operations may cause the sample values and the end of the first t...