ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,008, issued on March 4, was assigned to SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT LLC (San Mateo, Calif.) and SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT INC. (Tokyo).
"Dynamic audio optimization" was invented by Bethany Tinklenberg (San Mateo, Calif.), Victoria Dorn (San Mateo, Calif.) and Mahdi Azmandian (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for dynamic audio optimization associated with digital content are provided. One or more audio profiles including one or more audio settings for one or more audio output devices available to a user may be stored in memory. An incoming audio stream associated with a current interactive s...