ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,240, issued on March 18, was assigned to BlackBerry Ltd. (Waterloo, Canada).
"Controlling audio output in a vehicle" was invented by Roberto Speranza (Mississauga, Canada) and Pierre Pierre Blais (Kanata, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and software can be used to control audio output of a vehicle. In some aspects, a method includes: determining, at a vehicle, a current driving mode of the vehicle; determining, at the vehicle, a plurality of audio output levels based on the current driving mode and one or more preconfigured audio zone profiles; and controlling, by the vehicle, audio equipment of the vehicle t...