ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,053, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corp. (San Francisco) and DOLBY INTERNATIONAL AB (Dublin).

"Automatic generation and selection of target profiles for dynamic equalization of audio content" was invented by Giulio Cengarle (Barcelona, Spain), Nicholas Laurence Engel (San Francisco), Patrick Winfrey Scannell (San Francisco) and Davide Scaini (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a method comprises: filtering reference audio content items to separate the reference audio content items into different frequency bands; for each frequency band, extracting a first feature vector...