ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,140, issued on April 14, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"System and method for cross-fading audio signals" was invented by Shanmugam Gunasekaran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for cross-fading audio signals receives temporal data associated with the audio signals. Initially, current playback data corresponds to one of the temporal data. The system determines linear and non-linear data of the other temporal data that are linearly and non-linearly correlated with the temporal data, respectively. Further, the system receives a cross-fade request when a parameter value of a signal quality a...