US Patent Issued to DENSO, TOYOTA JIDOSHA, MIRISE Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Microphone device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,760, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to DENSO Corp. (Kariya-city, Japan), TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and MIRISE Technologies Corp. (Nisshin, Japan).

"Microphone device" was invented by Takashi Takazawa (Nisshin, Japan), Tomoki Tanemura (Nisshin, Japan) and Shuhei Shimanoe (Nisshin, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microphone device includes a housing, a microphone, a phone microphone, an analog wire, a conversion unit, and a processor. The housing has an opening portion and a horn including a horn opening portion and a horn tube extending from the horn opening portion. The microphone converts a sound that has propagate...