ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,779, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Techniques for audio track analysis to support audio personalization" was invented by Omid Khonsaripour (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for enabling personalization of audio tracks include selecting a portion of an audio track that is representative of the audio category, creating an audio sample from the portion of the audio track, playing the audio sample for a user, and adjusting, based on an input from the user while the audio sample is playing, a personalization setting for the user to be used when pl...