ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,687, issued on June 24, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Audio alert generation method and apparatus" was invented by Temujin Gautama (Boutersem, Belgium), Christophe Marc Macours (Hodelge, Belgium) and Bernard Kuhn (Muhldorf am Inn, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating an audible alert by a digital audio system configured to operate in a first operating mode and a second operating mode is described. An alert signal is generated or received. One or more segments of the generated or received alert signal is processed. The processed alert signal is then analysed to define the operating mode o...