US Patent Issued to AUSTRIAN AUDIO on June 16 for "Microphone circuit for the linearization of the proximity effect in a dynamic directional microphone" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,659,654, issued on June 16, was assigned to AUSTRIAN AUDIO GMBH (Vienna).

"Microphone circuit for the linearization of the proximity effect in a dynamic directional microphone" was invented by Bernhard Pinter (Moosbrunn, Austria) and Christoph Frank (Baden, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microphone circuit characterized in that an impedance element can be connected in parallel with the microphone for the purpose of damping resonance and linearizing the proximity effect. The impedance of this element is preferably between 20 and 1000 ohms."

The patent was filed on March 5, 2021, under Application No. 17/905,922.

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