ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,634,637, issued on May 19, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Sound capturing method, microphone, and electronic device" was invented by Shengjie Ruan (Shenzhen, China), Sike Tan (Shenzhen, China) and Linxing Huang (Dongguan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods and apparatuses related to a microphone. In an implementation, a microphone includes a laser self-mixing apparatus and a diaphragm apparatus, the diaphragm apparatus includes a membrane configured to respond to a sound vibration, and the laser self-mixing apparatus and the diaphragm apparatus are separately configured ...