ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,067, issued on May 27, was assigned to Voyetra Turtle Beach Inc. (White Plains, N.Y.).

"Method and system for visualization based on audio analysis" was invented by Richard Kulavik (San Jose, Calif.) and Shobha Devi Kuruba Buchannagari (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A game headset receives a plurality of channels of game and/or chat audio during game play, monitors the plurality of channels, and detect one or more sounds on the channels during the monitoring. The game headset determines characteristics of the detected one or more sound and outputs one or more signals for generating a visual representation of the det...