ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,137, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dotterel Technologies Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).
"Beamformed microphone array" was invented by Shaun Taggart Pentecost (Taipuha, New Zealand), Samuel Seamus Rowe (Auckland, New Zealand), Shaun Edlin (Auckland, New Zealand), Matthew Rowe (Auckland, New Zealand), Hin Loh (Auckland, New Zealand) and Mark Poletti (Wellington, New Zealand).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to a first aspect of the invention, there is provided a method of beamforming for a linear microphone array comprising: storing a desired end-fire beam response including a beamwidth specification; determining an error ...