ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,533, issued on June 2, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"System and method for dynamic mixing of audio" was invented by Loic Couthier (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for dynamically mixing audio content, the system comprising: a receiving unit configured to receive input audio; an analysis unit configured to analyse the input audio to determine one or more masking patterns; an attenuation unit configured to attenuate one or more channels of the input audio in accordance with the one or more masking patterns, and an output unit configured to output attenuated audio."

The patent was filed on ...