ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,925, issued on May 12, was assigned to HARMAN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIES Inc. (Stamford, Conn.).

"Microphone capsule assembly" was invented by Ruihua Chen (Shenzhen, China), Toly Wu (Shenzhen, China), Justin Bao (Shenzhen, China) and Yi Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microphone assembly includes a microphone array and a mixer. The microphone array includes first, second, and third microphones. The mixer includes an analog switch assembly and an amplifier assembly configured to mix recording signals of the microphones in different manners to realize different recording patterns of the microphone array. The differ...