ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,787, issued on March 24, was assigned to NUREVA INC. (Calgary, Canada).

"System for dynamically adjusting the gain structure of sound sources contained within one or more inclusion and exclusion zones" was invented by Kael Blais (Broomfield, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for intelligent and optimized zone gain management of sound sources within priority (inclusion) zones and adjacent to the priority (inclusion) zone boundaries of the 3D space by using sound source location and signal level information of sound sources from both inside the inclusion zone and outside the inclusion zone in the exclusion zone...