ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,197, issued on April 14, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Configuration of platform application with audio profile of a user" was invented by Brant Candelore (Poway, Calif.), Arturo Jordan (San Diego) and Mahyar Nejat (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A digital content playback application ("app") for a digital platform may be used for receiving content and for optionally generating or modifying, and then using an audio profile of a first user. The app may also be executed to modify, within the app, audio of a digital content per the audio profile. For example, a built-in media player incorporated into the app may ...