ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,556,875, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for determining room impulse responses" was invented by Philip Robinson (Seattle) and Paul Thomas Calamia (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for determining a room impulse response of an environment is disclosed. The system includes one or more microphones configured to detect acoustic energy in an area, an input/output interface configured to connect to a network, and one or more processors coupled to a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The system is configured to identify a sound det...