G06F 3/165
Management of the audio stream
Official title: {Management of the audio stream, e.g. setting of volume, audio stream path}
G06F3/165 (Management of the audio stream) appears on 8,184 US grants and 10,416 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 8,184
- Published applications
- 10,416
- Assignees
- 1,926
- Inventors
- 15,217
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
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| 2025 | 737 | 827 |
| 2026 | 446 | 568 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Audio-visual navigation and communication dynamic memory architectures6 Oct 2026US 12,754,651 B2Aq Media, Inc.
- Audio device, program, and control method6 Oct 2026US 12,754,711 B2Alphatheta Corporation
- Methods and apparatus for audio equalization based on variant selection6 Oct 2026US 12,755,153 B2Gracenote, Inc.
- Sound effect display method and terminal device6 Oct 2026US 12,755,467 B2Beijing Zitiao Network Technology Co., Ltd.
- Control of a volume leveling unit using two-stage noise classifier6 Oct 2026US 12,755,746 B2Dolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
- System and method for video conferencing on a dual screen television8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310397 A1Telly, Inc.
- Control device, control method, and program8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310400 A1NTT, Inc.
- Multi-device input based shared processing techniques8 Oct 2026US 2026/0310401 A1Meta Platforms Technologies, LLC
- Manually Operated Actuator and Method for Controlling a Manually Operated Actuator8 Oct 2026US 2026/0311675 A1Dr. Ing. h,c.F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
- Speech recognition system and method for providing speech recognition service8 Oct 2026US 2026/0313219 A1Hyundai Motor Company
Most cited
By later US patents
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- System and method for synchronizing operations among a plurality of independently clocked digital data processing devices1,949US 8,234,395 B2Sonos, Inc. · 2012
- Controlling and manipulating groupings in a multi-zone media system1,881US 8,483,853 B1Sonos, Inc. · 2013
- Method and device for obtaining playlist content over a network1,821US 8,045,952 B2Horsham Enterprises, LLC · 2011
- Wired, wireless, infrared, and powerline audio entertainment systems1,762US 8,103,009 B2KSC Industries, Inc. · 2012