US Patent Issued to Apple on Feb. 17 for "Determining a virtual listening environment" (Monegasque, Monacan, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,878, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Determining a virtual listening environment" was invented by Prateek Murgai (San Francisco), John E. Arthur (Santa Clara, Calif.), Joshua D. Atkins (Los Angeles), Juha O. Merimaa (San Mateo, Calif.), Dipanjan Sen (Dublin, Calif.), Brandon J. Rice (Pacifica, Calif.), Alexander Singh Alvarado (San Jose, Calif.), Jonathan D. Sheaffer (San Jose, Calif.), Benjamin Bernard (Monaco, Monaco) and David E. Romblom (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more acoustic parameters of a current acoustic environment of a user may be determined based on sensor ...