ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,688, issued on July 14, was assigned to YAMAHA Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Audio device, method of controlling audio device, and sound processing system" was invented by Kenji Ishizuka (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of controlling an audio device identifies an external user of the audio device by communicating with an information processing apparatus, receives, by the audio device, setting information of the audio device corresponding to the identified external user, and controls the audio device based on the received setting information of the audio device."

The patent was filed on Feb. 21, 2023, under App...