ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,284,493, issued on April 22, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Vibrational transducer control" was invented by Ning Li (Cedar Park, Texas), Hamid Sepehr (London), Ben Leslie (London), Aleksey Khenkin (Lago Vista, Texas), Michael Kurek (Austin, Texas), Marco A. Janko (Austin, Texas), Vadim Konradi (Austin, Texas), Peter Foskey (Austin, Texas) and Aaron Treptow (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a vibrational transducer, the method comprising: tracking a temperature metric of the vibrational transducer; and controlling a drive signal for the vibrational transducer, where the drive signal ...