ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,400, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Systems and methods for adaptive additive sound" was invented by Christine Jean Wu (San Francisco), Shokofeh Darbari (Palo Alto, Calif.), Shane Anton Myrbeck (Los Angeles) and Caitlin Emily Riggs (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for adaptive additive sound includes receiving ambient sound data corresponding to ambient sound in a first zone acquired by a microphone in the first zone, analyzing the ambient sound data from the first zone, generating audio signal data for the second zone based at least in part on the ambient sound data from...