ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,827, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Media input control settings" was invented by Megha Malpani (San Francisco), Ryosuke Matsumoto (Dublin, Calif.), Guoxing Zhao (South Hurstville, Australia), Jonathon Leigh Napper (Pymble, Australia), Megan L. Fu (San Francisco), Nikhil Siva Subash (San Jose, Calif.), Gary Hyun Jin Kim (San Mateo, Calif.), Alex Newcomer (San Francisco) and Joseph Kurachi Luk (Hokkaido, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may determine that an application with access to a media input resource has been launched by a user. A method may in response to determining that t...