ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,554, issued on May 27, was assigned to Pocket Bard LLC (Jersey City, N.J.).

"Apparatus and a method for providing a customizable and interactive ambient sound experience" was invented by Alex Berner (Jersey City, N.J.), Charles Stacy Harris IV (Astoria, N.Y.) and Jason Kovalski (Jersey City, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for providing a customizable and interactive ambient sound experience, comprising a computing device configured to populate a user interface (UI) data structure presenting selectable sound categories by generating configurable audio outputs, each having audio parameters, for each selectable sound c...