ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,443, issued on April 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"System and method of providing faded audio experience during transition between environments" was invented by Soenke Pelzer (Los Gatos, Calif.), David E. Romblom (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kacper Kosikowski (San Francisco) and Dirk Schroeder (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An audio system and a method of providing a faded audio experience during a transition from a first audio experience to a second audio experience, is described. The first audio experience can include playback of an audio signal spatialized using a first space impulse response that i...