US Patent Issued to Harman International Industries on July 21 for "Hierarchical priority alert ducker matrix" (Alabama, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,006, issued on July 21, was assigned to Harman International Industries Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Hierarchical priority alert ducker matrix" was invented by Riley Winton (Opelika, Ala.), Maxwell B Willis (Detroit), Skyler L Schmidt (Detroit) and Antonio Gomez (Hazel Park, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for organizing incoming data from audio sources and vehicle system inputs into one or more matrices to hierarchically prioritize the incoming data into one or more of a low priority mixer, a medium priority mixer and a high priority mixer. The hierarchically organized incoming data is prioritized and assigned a...