US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 23 for "Methods and user interfaces for managing audio channels" (California, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,228, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Methods and user interfaces for managing audio channels" was invented by Jarrett A. Ford (Alameda, Calif.), Andrew T. Aude (San Francisco), Jae Woo Chang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Kevin J. Ferrell (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure generally relates to methods for managing audio channels for multiple applications using an audio channel management user interface that is generated by system software. In some embodiments, the audio channel management user interface enables a first type of operation associated with the application...