ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,077, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Bose Corp. (Framingham, Mass.).
"Audio limiter" was invented by Emery Ku (Sudbury, Mass.), Benjamin Isaac Raubvogel (Thornhill, Canada) and Michael S. D'Agostino (Billerica, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is performed by active noise reduction (ANR) headphones. The method includes comparing a feedback microphone signal to a predicted feedback microphone signal representing what the feedback microphone signal would be expected to look like if there were no leak between the headphones and a user wearing the headphones. An audio limiter is adaptively adjusted based, at least in part...