ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,411, issued on April 7, was assigned to HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for virtual microphones in active noise cancellation" was invented by Tao Feng (Novi, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for a vehicle audio system including, in one example, a method for noise cancellation in a vehicle having a reference sensor configured to acquire a reference signal, a plurality of speakers configured to emit a noise cancellation signal, and a plurality of error microphones configured to acquire a residual signal. The method processes the reference signal with a t...