ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,694, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Method for controlling sound output of audio reproducing device and electronic device performing the same" was invented by Jihye Kwon (Suwon-si, South Korea), Youngchan Woo (Suwon-si, South Korea), Joayoung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea), Insik Myung (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Miyoung Lee (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling a sound output of a first audio reproducing device that is operable in a simultaneous listening mode with a second audio reproducing device such that, in the simultaneous listeni...