US Patent Issued to Meta Platforms Technologies on March 3 for "Contact transducer based audio enhancement" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,428, issued on March 3, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Contact transducer based audio enhancement" was invented by Lin Li (Seattle), Tetsuro Oishi (Bothell, Wash.) and Gongqiang Yu (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Contact transducer based audio enhancement (e.g., of sounds from a local area, speech of a user, etc.) is described. An audio system includes a microphone array, a contact transducer, and a controller. The contact transducer is in contact with tissue of the user and can detect tissue-based vibrations generated by the speech of the user. The sounds and the detected vibrat...