ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,818, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to GAUDIO LAB INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Audio signal processing method and device for controlling loudness level" was invented by Sangbae Chon (Seoul, South Korea), Kyutae Park (Seoul, South Korea), Younghoon Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Hyunoh Oh (Seoul, South Korea), Jeonghun Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Taegyu Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyunjoo Chung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio signal processing device comprises: a receiver for receiving an input audio signal; a processor for generating loudness metadata corresponding to the input audio signal; and an outputter fo...