ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,339, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Signal normalization using loudness metadata for audio processing" was invented by Sunil Bharitkar (Stevenson Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a method of signal normalization. The method comprises receiving an input content with a corresponding audio signal, and extracting loudness metadata from an audio signal corresponding to the input content. The method further comprises estimating, using a machine learning model, a peak-level amplitude based on the loudness metadata. The peak-level amplitude represe...