ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,767, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Selective acoustic optimization for thermally or power limited speaker systems" was invented by Miles K. Roberto (Austin, Texas), Chris Rattray (Newbury, Great Britain), Zhengyi Xu (Fleet, Great Britain) and Philip B.J. Clarkin (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a first input configured to receive a playback signal to be played back to a transducer, a second input configured to receive temperature information associated with the transducer, and a thermal-controlled gain element configured to determine a sub-band gain to be ap...