ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,388, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Audio skip back response to noise interference" was invented by Brant Candelore (Poway, Calif.) and Mahyar Nejat (La Jolla, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio playback system is provided to facilitate adaptive output of audio content, such as spoken word content, by an audio player in response to detecting noise interferences such as external noise outside of the playback system and/or a noise indicator that external noise is about to occur. The playback system utilizes a natural skip back point found in the audio content for playback when audio content is...