ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,786, issued on March 24, was assigned to Motorola Mobility LLC (Chicago).

"Active noise cancellation adjustment" 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 active noise cancellation (ANC) adjustment, a mobile device is in communication with a headset that has ANC. The mobile device and/or the headset implements a noise cancellation manager to detect that the headset is in communication with the mobile device, and monitor for contextual conditions associated with the ANC of the headset. The noise cancellation man...