ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,365, issued on June 3, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).
"Environmentally adaptive masking sound" was invented by Mark Raymond Blewett (Framingham, Mass.), Chuan-Che Huang (Natick, Mass.), Daniel M. Gauger Jr. (Cambridge, Mass.), Jeremy Kemmerer (Holliston, Mass.), Xiao Quan (West New York, N.J.) and Berker Banar (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various implementations include adaptive masking of environmental sound. Particular implementations are configured to adjust a masking sound based on one or more detected environmental sound sources. An example method includes: measuring environmental sound proximate to an ...