ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,113, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Co. LP (Spring, Texas).

"Determination of noise presence in recorded sounds" was invented by Hassan A. Syed (Spring, Texas), Hoang Van Ngo (Spring, Texas), Steve Mark Brauns (Fort Collins, Colo.) and Kwok Chi Kwong (Spring, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a non-transitory computer-readable medium stores machine-readable instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to cause a playback device to produce a sound using an audio file; cause a recording device to record the sound; compare the audio file to the recorded sound;...