ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,042, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Method and apparatus for location-based audio signal compensation" was invented by Graham Bradley Davis (Seattle), Jason Filos (San Diego) and Nils Gunther Peters (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device to perform location-based audio signal compensation includes a memory configured to store instructions and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute the instructions to receive an audio input signal corresponding to sound received from a second device, determine position data indicative of a position of the device, and gener...