ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,806, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Korea Institute of Science and Technology (Seoul, South Korea) and IUCF-HYU (Industry-University Cooperation Foundation Hanyang University) (Seoul, South Korea).

"System and method for real-time detection of user's attention sound based on neural signals, and audio output device using the same" was invented by Yoonseob Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Seung-Cheol Baek (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Ho Chung (Seoul, South Korea) and Jiyeon Ha (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for detecting a sound to which a user is attending based on neural signals includes an audio signal collectio...