ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,696,024, issued on July 28.

"Sound conditioning device" was invented by Michael Neuble Jr. (View Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sound conditioning device. The device includes a shield comprising an elongated plate having a front face and a rear face. A fastener is coupled to the rear face of the shield, where the fastener is adapted to detachably couple to a boom of a headset having a voice microphone. A sound conditioning material is coupled to the rear face, wherein the conditioning material overlays the voice microphone to encapsulate the voice microphone and suppress ambient sound detected by the microphone."

The pate...