ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,836, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Method and system for controlling echo cancellation" was invented by Qing Yang (Saratoga, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a media source device that has several microphones, the method includes receiving an input audio signal, providing the input audio signal to a media playback device that is communicatively coupled to a speaker, receiving, from the microphones, microphone signals that include the ambient sounds within an ambient environment in which the media source device is located and at least one sound of the input audio signal ...