US Patent Issued to DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE on Feb. 3 for "Method and apparatus for improving speech intelligibility in a room" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,149, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AG (Stuttgart, Germany).

"Method and apparatus for improving speech intelligibility in a room" was invented by Benjamin Bernard (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving speech intelligibility in a room includes detecting an active speaker, or speech, identifying the active speaker, and influencing at least one apparatus for producing sound for the room in such a way that the level of sound emitted into the room by this apparatus is reduced at frequencies or in frequency ranges that tally with or are adjacent to the frequencies, or frequenc...