ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,483,851, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DM-DSP LLC (Mill Valley, Calif.).

"Automatic level-dependent pitch correction of digital audio" was invented by George William Daly (Mill Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various applications, the system provides a method for processing audio signals, including: receiving, by a processor, a digital audio signal from a recorded audio file; analyzing, by the processor, the digital audio signal to identify pitch distortion caused by changes in momentary sound level; determining, by the processor, an amount of compensation of the audio signal to correct the identified pitch distorti...