US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for mitigating the effect of water retained in a microphone port" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,777,298, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for mitigating the effect of water retained in a microphone port" was invented by James Mcgregor Scanlan (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a system for correcting the audio received by an audio sensor that has been distorted by the presence of water in a port associated with the audio sensor. More specifically, wearable computing devices can include audio sensors that can detect audio signals in the vicinity of the wearable computing devices. To enable the audio sensors to capture audio signal data more accurately,...