ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,678, issued on June 17, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).
"Audio limiter" was invented by Michael S. D'Agostino (North Billerica, Mass.) and Harold Arthur Cheyne (Westborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques, including devices and system implementing the techniques, to dynamically adjust an audio limiter in an ANR audio output device. The audio limiter adaptively adjusts how much and when to limit incoming audio based on a determined state of the device relative to a user wearing the device. The state of the device is determined based on the quality of the seal o...