ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,765, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Crestron Electronics Inc. (Rockleigh, N.J.).

"System and method for detecting analog signals on an amplifier input and gating the same" was invented by Ekin Binal (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method are described herein for gating at least one input to an amplifier, the method comprising: measuring at least one audio analog signal level received by the amplifier at a first input; determining whether the received at least one audio analog signal level is below a predetermined threshold level; and gating the first input such that the received audio analog signal lev...