ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,673, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for dynamically adjusting presentation of audio outputs" was invented by Marcos Alonso Ruiz (Oakland, Calif.), David C. Graham (Columbus, Ohio), Freddy A. Anzures (San Francisco), Hugo D. Verweij (Portola Valley, Calif.), Afrooz Family (Emerald Hills, Calif.) and Matthew I. Brown (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device detects a first input directed to a first affordance in a set of one or more affordances displayed on a display. In response to detecting the first input, the electronic device ...