ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,218, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications LLC (Philadelphia).

"Methods and systems for augmenting audio content" was invented by Ehsan Younessian (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The audio content (e.g., an audio track, an audio file, an audio signal, etc.) of a content item (e.g., multimedia content, a movie, streaming content, etc.) may be modified to augment and/or include one or more auditory events, such as a sound, a plurality of sounds, a sound effect(s), a voice(s), and/or music."

The patent was filed on June 30, 2023, under Application No. 18/345,666.

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