ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,856, issued on July 29, was assigned to MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS INC. (Chicago).
"Volume control for an electronic device" was invented by Cheah Chan Kee (Gelugor, Malaysia), Lee Sun Ooi (Kulim, Malaysia), Kok Seng Ang (Bukit Mertajam, Malaysia), Jie Wen Loh (Taiping, Malaysia) and Kiam Beng Loh (Simpang Ampat, Malaysia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for performing noise suppression on an electronic device is provided herein. During operation, a volume-control knob will increase a volume of sound output from a device in a substantially linear fashion (versus knob rotation angle) as a volume-control knob is rotated in...