ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,540, issued on March 17, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Gain control of audio data using hardware accelerators" was invented by Robin O. Hoel (Oslo, Norway), Anand Kumar G (Bangalore, India), Vineet Khurana (Delhi, India) and Aniruddha Periyapatna Nagendra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various examples disclosed herein relate to digital signal processing, and more particularly, to identifying metrics of audio samples to dynamically adjust the gain of audio data. In an example embodiment, a pulse density modulation system is provided that includes sample generation circuitry and gain control circ...