ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,548, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Baffle structure induced amplitude and phase differences" was invented by Leonard Charles Layton (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system comprises an auditory system exposed to an environment. The auditory system comprises a microphone that receives sonic waveforms and outputs audio signals. A baffle structure comprising multiple paths for every arriving sonic waveform is located between the microphone and the environment. The baffle structure is configured to, based at least on an angle of arrival for a sonic wa...