ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,447, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).
"Ambient volume control in open audio device" was invented by Mehul Trivedi (Oakland, Calif.), Vincent Lee (San Francisco), Cory Roberts (Mendon, Mass.), James P. Mulvey (Reading, Mass.) and Guy Anthony Torio (Holliston, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus are provided for automatically adjusting, by an audio device, the SPL of its audio output. As described herein, the SPL is adjusted based on detected ambient noise. According to aspects, audio device iteratively adjusts the SPL based on the ambient noise. According to aspects, the SPL is ...