ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,524, issued on April 7, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Ending active noise cancellation based on a detected audio source" was invented by Amit Kumar Agrawal (Bangalore, India), Himanshu Chug (Bangalore, India) and Shivam Raj (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In aspects of ending active noise cancellation based on a detected audio source, a mobile device implements an audio playback manager that detects a headset employing active noise cancellation (ANC) of audio in communication with a mobile device in an environment of the mobile device. The audio playback manager receives a selection of at least on...