ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,772, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Microphone port for acoustic suppression" was invented by Anders Fabricius Tyson (San Jose, Calif.), Jarrett B. Lagler (San Francisco) and Martin Kuster (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transducer port assembly comprising: a frame defining an acoustic chamber having an opening to an ambient environment and one or more interior sloping surfaces coupled to an acoustic port of a transducer; an acoustic mesh coupled to the opening to the ambient environment; and a blocking member coupled to the acoustic mesh to acoustically close a portion of th...