ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,238,492, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Gracenote Inc. (New York).

"Methods and apparatus for audio equalization based on variant selection" was invented by Robert Coover (Orinda, Calif.), Joseph Renner (Oakland, Calif.) and Cameron A. Summers (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for audio equalization based on variant selection. An example apparatus to equalize audio includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuity to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to train a neural network mod...