US Patent Issued to Google on May 5 for "Spatial audio communication between devices with speaker array and/or microphone array" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,621,625, issued on May 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Spatial audio communication between devices with speaker array and/or microphone array" was invented by Jian Guo (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Frances Maria Hui Hong Kwee (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology generally relates to spatial audio communication between devices. For example, a first device and a second device may be connected via a communication link. The first device may capture audio signals in an environment through two or more microphones. The first device may encode the captured audio with direction information. The first...