US Patent Issued to Northwestern University on Feb. 24 for "Visualizing auditory masking in multitrack audio recording" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,360, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Visualizing auditory masking in multitrack audio recording" was invented by Noah L. Liebman (Chicago), Darren R. Gergle (Chicago) and Bryan A. Pardo (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain aspects, a method includes receiving a plurality of audio inputs. The method includes determining masking of each audio input of the plurality of audio inputs. The method includes displaying the partial loudness and the masking of each audio input of the plurality of audio inputs in a time domain. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided...