ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,305, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for audio adjustment" was invented by Scott Phillip Selfon (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio system includes a sound output device, a microphone, and processing circuitry. The microphone is configured to capture environmental audio. The processing circuitry is configured to analyze the environmental audio to identify one or more properties of environmental audio conditions. The processing circuitry is configured to adjust one or more sound presentation parameters based on the one or more properties o...