ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,347, issued on May 13, was assigned to Lenovo (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).
"Device disturbance reduction" was invented by Nathan Peterson (Oxford, N.C.), Gary D Cudak (Wake Forest, N.C.) and John M Petersen (Wake Forest, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method, the method including: identifying, using a disturbance minimization system, a device as a primary device; identifying, using the disturbance minimization system, a context of the primary device; determining, using the disturbance minimization system and based upon the context of the primary device, that sound disturbances need reduced ...