ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,513,481, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for audio transition between acoustic environments" was invented by Sujeet Shyamsundar Mate (Tampere, Finland), Jussi Artturi Leppanen (Tampere, Finland), Antti Johannes Eronen (Tampere, Finland) and Otto Viljami Harju (Tampere, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for enabling audio transition between at least two acoustic environments, the apparatus including circuitry configured to: obtain information of at least a first acoustic environment associated with an audio scene, wherein the audio scene includes the first ...