ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,015, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Dynamic control for selective acoustic optimization of thermally or power limited speaker systems" was invented by Zhengyi Xu (Newbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio system may include an audio transducer, a thermal protection subsystem configured to protect the audio transducer from overheating, and a control subsystem communicatively coupled to the thermal protection subsystem and configured to receive an audio signal for playback at the audio transducer, determine an audio heating metric indicative of a predicted effect of the audio...